"The sea is the most beautiful face..." - Quote by Mary Oliver

“I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.”

“But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?”

“The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.”

“At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.”

“Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.”

“Sir, the year growing ancient,Not yet on summer's death nor on the birthOf trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' seasonAre our carnations and streaked gillyvors,Which some call nature's bastards.”

“The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.”

“One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.”

“If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.”