Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you've got to get out and see God's beauty of the world.