“The view of Earth is spectacular.” – Sally Ride

“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.” – Jean Rostand

“Nature is never finished.” – Robert Smithson

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James Whistler

“Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut, that held its ground.” – David Icke

“America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth’s skeleton.” – Ellsworth Huntington

“All nature wears one universal grin.” – Henry Fielding

“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.” – Baltasar Gracian

“Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.” – Edward Young

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.” – William Butler Yeats