Nature

“My paintings are somewhat the repercussions of my relationship with reality, with nature, with what I see around me.”

“One could not but respond to the idea that here was a new world, flawless and unblemished, into which no human being had ever pried.”

“The lighter phase of comedy, representing the more natural and less laboured school of modern life, and holding the mirror up to nature without regard to the conventionalities of the theatre, was the aim I had in view.”

“& the light, the glorious light!”

“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size.”

“You and I are not very different from this flower. Just like this flower is unique, you are unique.”

“If … the earth, and in a wider sense the whole world round about us, is alive, then we are now already participants of its life without being resolved into it or being lost in it.”

“Por donde me pareció darle nombre de Historia natural y moral de las Indias, abrazando con este intento ambas cosas.”

“I wish I was a piece of field recording.”

“Do the dots shine as brightly as the stars? When I close my eyes, I see the rivers and mountains of my country more clearly than the rainbows.”

“Tôi chỉ làm cơn gió thổi.”

“Duy tính ưa suối đá, mà chí khí ở nơi hồ biển.”

“No es la ciencia quien ha requerido que la identificación tenga un solo medio y logre una sola eficacia, sino la naturaleza.”

“If someone asks what the heart of Yamato is, I would answer: the mountain cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun.”

“Human nature is not at fault.”

“so it came that being in the bush and feeling the delight and fascination of the great pastoral life and work I have tried to express it”

“The navigation of the air, for me, is like the navigation of a river.”

“This is my favorite time of the day—so beautiful and so quiet.”