If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. – Joseph Wood Krutch

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even ones own even more, ones own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. – Katherine Anne Porter

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. – Michelangelo