"Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
More by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.”
“No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.”
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”
More on Nature
“All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River”
“Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.”
“The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.”
More on Process
“A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.”
“My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.”
“Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.”