"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

– Henry David Thoreau

"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

– Diane Ackerman

{i suspect this may become another extremely irregular series because i do so love mark rothko’s paintings.}

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

– Amy Lowell