The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Earth laughs in flowers.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of read more

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.