natural perfection Quotes

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work of nature, and man is her masterpiece.

Embrace nature's brutal perfection.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.

The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.