“You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things. A tree seldom if ever encroaches upon the liberty of another tree. It never wastes its growth in unnecessary twistings.” IfsUnderstandingGrowthRealizingLibertyTreeMovementWasteConsciousPaintUnnecessaryLiving Things Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]” MenHumansHappinessLibertyConsciousAffairDespiseVirtuous Author:Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
“A people who still remembered that their ancestors had been the masters of the world would have applauded, with conscious pride, the representation of ancient freedom, if they had not long since been accustomed to prefer the solid assurance of bread to the unsubstantial visions of liberty and greatness.” PeopleIfsWorldLongStillsLibertyVisionHistoryGreatnessMastersPrideConsciousAncientBreadRememberedAncestorRepresentationAssuranceAccustomedRoman Empire Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.” ShouldPersonsArtMadeMatterLawLibertySubjectsConsciousShould HaveNotionPhysicsBiologyOrganismsLaws Of Physics Author:W. H. Auden
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?” MenHumansLibertyConsciousAffairDespiseVirtuous Author:William Shakespeare
“The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.” FirstsSoulMomentsLibertyCryConscious Author:J. G. Holland