Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

—Thornton Wilder

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

—Loudon Wainwright III

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

—Lord Byron

Nature is a petrified magic city.

—Novalis

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

—Zeno