“Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant;
the only harmless great thing.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.”
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As quoted in "Epiphanies in Sepia and Umber" by Matthew Gurewitsch, in The Wall Street Journal, (15 March 2005)
Context: In the next 25 years, the human race will have to decide whether or not to preserve the bestiary of Nature’s living masterpieces. Ashes and Snow is not meant to tell people to do some things and not to do other things. It’s meant to inspire. I hope it’s not a requiem.
“Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
Source: City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
“The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. ”
Antoine François Prévost (1697–1763) French novelist
“Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687) English statesman and poet
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby "An Essay on Poetry", line 2; cited from The Poetical Works of the Most Noble John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (Edinburg [sic]: Apollo Press, 1780) p. 281. <br class="br">Misattributed in Temple Bar (February 1863) p. 377, and by Giga Quotes http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/george_villiers_a001.htm. <br class="br">Misattributed
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
“Make every day your masterpiece.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000) <br class="br">Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
J.A. Hobson (1858–1940) English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism
Preface to the Revised Edition (October, 1906)
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production (1906)