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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. read more
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.rn
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
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, read more
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one read more
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
