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Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. -- Rembrandt
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. -- Frank Moore Colby
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. -- H. G. Wells
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. -- Marie Curie
When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child. -- Zig Ziglar
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. -- Rudolf Otto
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest. -- Allison Pearson
Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter. -- Josie Bissett
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. -- Beck
We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature. -- Esther Rolle
Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature. -- Criss Angel
Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse? -- Patch Adams
I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy. -- Jennifer Jason Leigh
Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance. -- Charlotte Rampling
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature. -- Annie Besant
People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me. -- Orhan Pamuk
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God. -- Annie Besant
There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything. -- Annette Bening
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care. -- Jenny McCarthy
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature. -- Ayelet Waldman
Art is the child of Nature. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great men have the nature of a child. -- Ramakrishna
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature. -- Charles Lamb
I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother. -- W.S. Gilbert
Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span. -- Richard Louv
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. -- Alexander Pope
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. -- Herbert Spencer
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature. -- Maria Montessori
All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority. -- George Will
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence. -- Maria Montessori
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. -- Nick Bostrom
Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature. -- Tariq Ramadan
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace. -- Richard Louv
Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature. -- Charlotte M. Mason
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. -- Robert Breault
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. -- Charles Lamb
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them. -- Charles Lamb
No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child. -- Charles Francis Richter
He whom nature thus bereaves, Is ever fancy's favourite child; For thee enchanted dreams she weaves Of changeful beauty, bright and wild. -- Frances Sargent Osgood
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child? -- Richard Louv
Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment. -- Richard Louv
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it. -- Jules Michelet
No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way. -- Muhammad Ali
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature. -- Maria Montessori
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher. -- Herbert Spencer
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that. -- Alice Walker
Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you." -- John Darnielle
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them. -- Phyllis Bottome
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child -- Charles E. Burchfield
If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away. -- Ted Trueblood
Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will. -- Martha Ostenso
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child. -- Richard Louv
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. -- Thomas Huxley
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