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Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it read more
Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through the atmosphere.
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his read more
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they
being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection
of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there
were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another.
In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of
God.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the read more
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Live read more
Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!