Famous Quotes | Art is not tame, and Nature is...

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man’s art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. - Henry David Thoreau
Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 337, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

Categories: Art, Author, Naturalist, Nature, Perfection, Philosopher

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