"No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beau...

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
~ Oscar Wilde ~












It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
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"Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will ha...
"It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. I discern great sanity in the Greek attitude. They never chattered a...
"Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think th...
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"The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.