Natural Forms Quotes:

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

- Marcus Aurelius

source: "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius, XI, 10. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

topic: Art, Nature, Natural, Natural Forms

To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (1861). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.167

topic: Natural Selection, Creation And Evolution, Proof God Exists, Proof Of God, Proof That God Exists

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.

- Charles Darwin

source: "The Collapse of Evolution". Book by Scott Huse, p. 73, 1996.

topic: Natural Selection, Darwinism, Creationist, These Eyes, Origin Of Species

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.

- Henry Moore

source: Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.198, Univ of California Press

topic: Animal, People, Sculpture, Natural Forms

The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.

- Paul Klee

topic: Art, Creativity, Entering, Pictorial, Natural Forms

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Essence, Soul, Eternity, Natural Forms

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

- Dagobert D. Runes

topic: Men, Relaxation, Natural, Natural Forms

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Art, Philosophy, History, Copiers, Natural Forms

Change is a natural form of progression.

- Trey Songz

source: "Interview: Trey Songz Talks Complex Fashion Shoot and Musical Influences". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. April 17, 2010.

topic: Progression, Natural, Form, Natural Forms

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

- Rebecca Goldstein

source: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.199, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Children, Past, Play, Natural Forms

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

- Solange Knowles

topic: Son, Listening, Rebellion, Natural Forms

Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.

- Jack Kornfield

source: Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.398, Random House

topic: Gratitude, Kindness, Heart, Loving Kindness, Forms Of Love

When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.

- Russell Sherman

topic: Play, Issues, Echoes, Tableau, Natural Forms

Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nearly-allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument that all are descended from a common progenitor who was thus endowed; and consequently that all should be classed under the same species. The same argument may be applied with much force to the races of man.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (1872). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.225

topic: Small Details, Natural Forms

Saint Augustine cries, Lord I cannot love you, but come in and love yourself in me. According to Saint Paul, we must put off our own natural form and put on the form of God, and Saint Augustine tells us to discard our own mode of nature; then the divine nature will flow in and be revealed. Saint Augustine says, Those who seek and find, find not. He who seeks and finds not, he alone finds. Saint Paul says, What I was, was not I, it was God in me.

- Meister Eckhart

topic: Love You, And Love, Saint, Augustine, Saint Paul

I have always been very interested in landscape... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.

- Henry Moore

topic: Air, Space, Tree, Tree Trunks, Natural Forms

The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.

- Manly Hall

topic: Religious, Simple, Expression, Amplification, Natural Forms

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

- Hart Crane

source: Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

topic: Patience, Taken, Order, Natural Forms, Welding

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

- Brandon Boyd

topic: Writing, Expression, Listening, Natural Forms

There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

- Thomas Berry

topic: Spiritual, Expression, Soul, Natural Forms

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

- Betty Dodson

topic: Suffering, Firsts, Natural, Natural Forms

This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour.

- Piet Mondrian

topic: Expression, Ideas, Lines, Natural Forms

Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.

- Paul Stamets

topic: Mushrooms, Analysis, Culture, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Companies