Michel de Montaigne Quote

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.


Complete Essays (ed. Stanford University Press, 1958) - ISBN: 9780804704861


It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness...

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness...

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness...

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness...