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- Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
- The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
- It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
- The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
- To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.