Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, read more

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower read more

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man

Nature is a revelation of God; Art is a revelation of man