Quotes: Boris Pasternak

"In the fields, she stopped and took a deep breath of the flower-scented air. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. And for a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to absorb its wild enchantment." 

–– Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), Russian poet and writer 

Source: Boris Pasternak. Doctor Zhivago quoted in Art Propelled 2016. 

via: Striped notebook 2016–present, p. 1.

Quotes: Tyler Knott Gregson

"I find no coincidence in the fact that some of the grandest revelations in my entire life have come during periods of total isolation surrounded only by the mountains, the trees, the sea, and the light." 

–– Tyler Knott Gregson (b. 1981), American writer 

Source: Art Propelled, 2017.

Quotes: Hermien de Vos

"Just as we have a need for wild nature, along with that comes a need for ancient wisdom, ancient traditions with wise elders, who live close to the earth, and understand it. A need to return to those basic truths." 

–– Hermien de Vos, South African actress 

Source: Art Propelled, September 20, 2018.

via: Sketchbook 30, 2019, p. 144.

Quotes: Rainer Maria Rilke

"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."

–– Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 54. 

Quotes: Heinrich Heine

"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effect with the most limited means." 

–– Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet, essayist, journalist, and literary critic 

via: Sketchbook A, 2017, p. 37.