Edward Hopper Quotes

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

There is not a sprig of grass that grows uninteresting to me.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.

I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay. Those people are my home, and every time I come home, it reminds me that there's something to be said for being in the spotlight, but it can never be a whole part of me.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

I stand astonished at my own moderation