"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule." - Michael PollanTweet
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world." - Georges SimenonTweet
"To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things." - Ansel AdamsTweet
"To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature." - Auguste RodinTweet
"In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars." - Richard M. NixonTweet
"Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake." - Wallace StevensTweet
"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature." - Charles EastmanTweet
"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable." - Ambrose BierceTweet
"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony." - Ruth BernhardTweet
"Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art." - Virginia WoolfTweet