Beaded Bug

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams

The Memorial Mall

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller

City Love

"Love is like a friendship caught of fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.
As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals,
deep-burning and unquenchable."
- Bruce Lee

The National Gallery of Art

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
- Thomas Merton

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
- Aristotle

A Lone Dandelion

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Blossoming Tree

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."
- Henri Matisse

Clustered Pink Flowers

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
- Pablo Neruda

Yellow Grass

"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug."
- Helen Keller

Lepidoptera

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
- Richard Bach

Suspension Bridges in the Canopy

"Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal."
- E.O. Wilson

Penelope

"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering."

- William S. Burroughs

Green Leaves of Spring

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
- Rabindranath Tagore

Pipin

"The dog that trots about finds a bone."

- Golda Meir

Maine Sunset

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky."
- Rabindranath Tagore

Maine Field

"I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine."
- Parker Stevenson

Monarch Butterfly

"Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

- Muhammad Ali

Post-Show Rose

"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life
before we can hope to improve theater."
- William Ralph Inge

Little White Flowers

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
- Edvard Munch

White Flowers

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

View From the Sentinels

"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."
- John Muir

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
- John Muir

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
- John Muir

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
- John Muir

Syracuse University

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
- Winston Churchill

Chocolate Chip Cookies

"C is for Cookie."
- The Cookie Monster

Bûche de Noël

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."
- Roy L. Smith

Ta'bai, Man's Best Friend

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."

- Josh Billings

Dandelion Field

"Earth laughs in flowers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bon Fire

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
- Albert Schweitzer

Old Plow

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."
- Vince Lombardi

White Orchid

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."
- Luther Burbank

Don't Just Be Another Brick in the Wall

Mojave Yucca

"The Mojave Desert just blows me away. It is just miles upon miles of this weirdly beautiful desolation."
- Emily Priddy

Muhlenberg Dome

"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form. We should try to bring in under the same
hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."
- Alvar Aalto

Muhlenberg Chapel

"Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head."
- Harold Brodkey