The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature.

最大的回报来自于最努力的工作和不放弃。

成功就是忠于自我。

政府的科学是我必须研究的，比其他所有科学都重要；立法、行政和谈判的艺术应该取代，实际上在某种程度上排除所有其他艺术。

The safest way to try and get what you want is to try and deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea. It’s the golden rule so to speak. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

Technology can help us monitor forests, but wisdom teaches us how to preserve them.

建筑应该是安静和背景式的，而不是喧闹引人注目的

我不完美，但我正在尽力。

The past is always changing, because we are always changing our relationship to it.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but forgetting one's mother tongue.