Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.