Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John LubbockMany savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.
John LubbockLife is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.
John LubbockThe important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.
John Lubbock