“I love not man the less, but Nature more.” – Lord Byron

“When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” – George Edward Moore

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E. M. Forster

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.” – Walt Whitman

“Form follows function.” – Louis Sullivan

“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.” – Francis Bacon

“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.” – Charles Horton Cooley

“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” – Rabindranath Tagore