“So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.” LongArtMovingForceNatureDealsEmotionModernPaintingHighestAspectAncientObjectivesAesthetic Author:Lawren Harris
“What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.” EarthFallEnjoyNatureLordCreaturesHighestDelightFeaturesGloriousWeed Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...
“That which reminds us of nature and thus stimulates a feeling for the infinite abundance of life is beautiful. Nature is organic,and therefore the highest beauty is forever vegetative; and the same is true for morality and love.” FeelingsBeautifulLife IsNatureForeverMoralityHighestAnd LoveInfiniteAbundanceLife Is BeautifulNature LoveBeautiful Nature Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order.” InspirationalArtInspirationOrderForceNatureWorkHighestArt IsAgentsWorks Of Art Author:Robert Rodale
“The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.” ThinkingHumansGovernmentFormNatureExistenceHuman NatureTypeRepublicanHighestRepublicForms Of Government Author:Herbert Spencer
“The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of the highest powers, the highest something in the universe, in whichever way we look at it... This is the charm of Study from Nature itself; she brings us back to absolute truth wherever we wander.” WayShouldMindLooksScienceUniverseNaturePowerStudyHard WorkHighestAbsolutesWanderCharmLowestIntercourseTriflesAbsolute Truth Author:Louis Agassiz
“Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.” GivingMindChildrenLittlesGodFactsSeemsChristianScienceNatureTeachRiskGiving UpHighestAccountsPreparedNotionSurrenderGods WillPeace Of MindStrongestConceptionBe PreparedAbyssEnquiryPreconceived Notions Author:Thomas Huxley