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“[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.”

Persons Art Values Nature Industry Equal Productions Mortification

Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.”

Moments Artist Values Nature Interesting Objects Higher Aspect Significant Characteristics Seizing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everyone values the good nature of a man with a gun.”

Men Values Nature Power Gun Good Nature

Author:Mason Cooley

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

Art Beautiful Values Language Nature Ability Quality Stage Perceive Land Conservation

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.”

Values Nature Numbers Accepting Environment Compromise

Author:Sidney Poitier

“High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

Art Beautiful Lying Values Language Nature Ability Silence Quality Stage Cry Lows Heavy Perceive Shakes Thick Horns New Day Trumpets Marshes Cranes Bogs Pandemonium

Author:Aldo Leopold

“We risk losing what nature is if we couch its value in human terms.”

Ifs Humans Values Term Nature Risk Losing Couches

Author:Dick Black

“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.”

Writing Values Nature Company Tree Garden Breakfast Dine

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts