“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous”

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

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

“All art is but imitation of nature”

“Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”