Nature's Art in the Garden

Nature's Art in the Garden

San Vicente Botanical Garden

San Vicente Ilocos Sur - Heritage Zone of the North RA 11645

Photographs by Dr Abe V Rotor

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature." 

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leaf venation of croton (Codiaeum variegatum)

"Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art." - Philip James Bailey

 Angel Wings (Caladium bicolor)

"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?" - Vincent Van Gogh

Sander's Alocasia (Alocasia Sanderiana)

"Art is never finished, only abandoned." ― Leonardo da Vinci

 San Francisco (Codiaeum sp)

"Art is a harmony parallel with nature." - Paul Cezanne

Snake Plant (Sanseviera zeylanica)

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Variegated Pandan? (Pandanus sp)

"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." - Paul Cezanne

Anthurium (Anthurium scherzerianum, also A. andraeanum)

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... 

it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." - Edvard Munch

Ornamental Pineapple (Ananas sp)

"Great art picks up where nature ends." - Marc Chagall

Sampaguita or Jasmine (Jasminium sambac)

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle

Acknowledgement: Quotations from Internet ~