I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable read more

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can read more

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death,
And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

The course of Nature seems a course of Death,
And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.