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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.