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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"

"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."

"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."

"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
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"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."

"One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man."

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease."

"The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual."

"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you."
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