I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the... →
James Thomson
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely... →