A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Constantine was Nature's masterpiece, a triumph, as it were, of God's handiwork. One look at him would convince anyone that here was a descendant of the mythical Golden Age of the Greeks, so infinite was his charm.

Now to the great artist, everything in nature has character.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

In the vaunted works of Art The master stroke is Nature's part.

Very few works of art, however skillfully crafted, can approach the splendor of a living bird.

Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Nature is the art of God

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.

Nature is the art of God.

Nature is the art of God.

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

The most perfectly constructed object in nature, and also the most beautiful object in nature, is the human form as it approaches perfection. This, then, is the criterion of construction as it is of design. The study of its beauties is the veritable key to art...