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• The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
  -- Henry Moore...
• Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory
  We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory....
• Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once.
  Lately it doesn't seem to be working....
• Nothing that is alive remains unchanging. All Nature changes from day to day and minute to minute, only the dead stop growing and are quiescent.
  Fresh water runs on, and if you stop it, it becomes stagnant....
• only to the extent which -- in chains, in dungeo
  in hidden corners, in the cells of philosophers, in the shops of traders -- some men continued to think, only to that extent was humanity able to survive ....
• Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.
  His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not....
• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat.
  He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things....
• I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Memoranda from his Life, by Moore, Chap, xiv...
• The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)