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

“How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!”

“I believe in God, only I spell it nature ”

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides”

“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.”