Quotes about Perception
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
— Walt Whitman
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
— Oscar Wilde
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
— Marc Chagall
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
— Vincent Van Gogh
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
— St. John Chrysostom
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
— Carl Sagan
George Burns . . . the only man I know who does fool Mother Nature.
— Ronald Reagan
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.
— Joel Rosenberg
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.
— Alice Walker