Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a read more

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the read more

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, read more

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect