"Over all the mountain tops is peace...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.”

“Architecture is frozen music.[Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]”

“Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.”

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”

“[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.”

“It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.”

“Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

“I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.”