„Rhodora! if the sages ask thee whyThis charm is wasted on the earth and sky,Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„If eyes were made for seeing,Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„The desolate, deserted trees,The faded earth, the heavy sky,The beauties she so truly sees,She thinks I have no eye for these,And vexes me for reason why.“
— Robert Frost
„I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!How beautiful thou art!“
— John Keats
„Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.“
— John Ruskin