"Nature! We live in her midst and..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.”

“Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.”

“Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.”

“We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.”

“Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.”

“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.”

“Light and liberty go together.”

“Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.”

“The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.”