“Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.” – Joyce Carol Oates

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” – Tennessee Williams

“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle

“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.” – Harry S Truman

“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.” – Honore de Balzac

“Use plants to bring life.” – Douglas Wilson

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.” – Joseph Joubert

“If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.” – Bill Watterson