Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.