Antoni Gaudi Quotes

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

The universe is a great mystery.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.

No species is more important than others.

Simply to pit "society" against "nature," "humanity" against the "biosphere," and "reason," "technology," and "science" against less developed, often primitive forms of human interaction with the natural world, prevents us from examining the highly complex differences and divisions within society so necessary to define our problems and their solutions.

All life forms obey Nature's demands—except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

If the artificial is not better than the natural, to what end are all the arts of life? To dig, to plow, to build, to wear clothes, are direct infringements of the injunction to follow nature.