Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.Michel de Montaigne
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.Oscar Wilde
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.Simone Weil
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.Oscar Wilde