“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

“‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’” – W. H. Auden

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” – Winston Churchill

“The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.” – Elbert Hubbard

“The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.” – Hannah Arendt