“The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.”

“There is no place on earth or on the universe that a tree cannot turn a place into a more beautiful site!”

“Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do comprehend.”

“Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.”

“It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.”

“He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, "Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.”