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Nature is the art of God.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.