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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.”

Has Beens Reason Animal Beauty Forever Rich Taken Color Depends Bird Constitution Insects Arbitrary Inseparable

Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.”

Wisdom Age Time Strong Beauty Rich Wise Aging Handsome

Book:The complete English works

Source: The complete English works

“Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.”

World Real Beauty Rich Promise Real Beauty

Book:Red Mars

Source: Red Mars

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

Beautiful Speak Imagination Beauty Rich Handsome Elegant Creating Beauty

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.”

Earth Together Beauty Rich Sadness Sad Nature Beauty Feeling Sad Nature And Beauty Sadness Of Life Nature's Beauty Sadness And Love

Book:Within and Without

Source: Within and Without

“The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.”

Problem Age Born Beauty Rich Getting High Short Beauty

Author:Joan Collins