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"I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities."

Everett Ruess (1914 - 1934) - from the last letter Ruess sent to his brother, dated November 11, 1934

"Scientists look for beauty in truth, and artists look for truth in beauty."

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"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes."

Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931)

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

Sandra Carey

"If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed."

Kate Halvorsen

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension."

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)

"Study the science of art, and the art of science."

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

"Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Arthur Godfrey (1903 - 1983)

"Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

"Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word."

Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)

"I am not a thing, a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process,
an integral function of the universe, and so are you."

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)

"The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose."

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

"To acquire knowledge one must study, but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

Marilyn vos Savant (1946 - )

"There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept."

Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use."

Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

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