Karl Blossfeldt quotes
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“My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.”
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“The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.”
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“Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.”
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“If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice and discover its forms, is something that only a few are capable of.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
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“So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”
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Source : Bruce Schneier (2000). “Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world”, Wiley
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“Confidence is a plant of slow growth ...”
Source : Speech in 'Hansard' 14 January 1766, col. 97
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