We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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

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

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; read more

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, read more

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.