"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature"

~ Gerard De Nerval

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul."

~John Muir

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

(Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887)