Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It’s very special to me.

Birds have wings they’re free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.