“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”
“study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
“Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.”
“Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.”
“It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.”
“The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature.”