“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

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” – Federico Fellini

“Hey sky, take off your hat, I’m on my way!” – Valentina Tereshkova

“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.” – John Singer Sargent

“In nature there are few sharp lines.” – A. R. Ammons