Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

Habit is ten times nature.

Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal miners. Why did they go into that line of work? Because that's what they were taught. Or was it in their genes? It's not an either/or question. It's both. I was inclined in that way. I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.

Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

Man must go back to nature for information.

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth.

Nature is stronger than education.

Mother Earth is very talented.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

No child is bad from the beginning, they only imitate their atmosphere.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

We are the living planet!

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

If Heaven were not clear it might rend. If Earth were not firm it might crumble.