Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.