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“The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.”

Heart Lying Nature Perfect Judgment Models Gains Rely Copying Gateways Helm Stout

Book:The Craftsman's Handbook

Source: The Craftsman's Handbook

“Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful.”

World Beautiful Individual Nature Perfect Behinds Creative Reflection Inspired Perceive Visible Timeless Garments A Perfect World

Author:Lawren Harris

“Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”

Play God Nature Perfect Lord Devil Organs Our Lord Trinity

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.”

Law Nations Grows Nature Perfect Violence Blood Divine All Things Method Rounds Grass

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.”

Enough Force Nature Perfect Money Economy One Thing Reserves Principal Superfluous Frugality Employing

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”

Source: Mansfield Park

“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”

Stills Nature Perfect Study

Author:Francis Bacon

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”

Trying Reality Water Nature Memories Perfect Forever Get Back Flood Good Memories Flooding Water Of Life Water Is Life

Book:What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

Source: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

“Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.”

Needs Sometimes Law Literature Nature Perfect Virtue Inspire Vices Impulse Equilibrium Maintenance

Author:Marquis de Sade

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”

Way Stills Beautiful Nature Perfect Beauty Tree Travel Imperfection Bent Nature And Environment Nature Beauty Nature Love Nature And Beauty Beautiful Nature Being Natural Nothing Is Perfect Natural Scenery

Author:Alice Walker

“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”

People Needs Faces Given Nature Perfect Secret Needed Something New Gorgeous Modeling Not Being Perfect

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.”

Thinking Years Believe Littles Long Feelings Today Universe Nature Perfect Secret Mystery Evolution Scientist Exciting Awful Awe Tragic Amazed Puzzles Exciting Things

Author:Jane Goodall

“"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."”

Matter Might Nature Simple Perfect Example Grew Understood

Author:Charles de Lint

“Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience.”

Way Nature Perfect Vision Seeing Creation Discovery Connections Poetry Is Professors Another Way Indivisible

Author:Reginald Horace Blyth

“For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.”

Science Certain Nature Natural Perfect Animal Class Imperfection Imperfect Accustomed Wild Animal

Author:Marcello Malpighi

“God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.”

World Art Science Force Nature Perfect Secret Fashion Chaos Forces Of Nature A Perfect World

Book:Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

Source: Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham