Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Reggae is definitely a natural influence. Even living in Southern California, near the water, you get that reggae feel.
Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
I think of myself as California modern, and I'm hugely inspired by nature.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.
Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.
