The sun has substance, shape, movement, radiance, heat and generative power; and these qualities all emanate from itself without its diminution.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe.

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.