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The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.