“Nor art nor nature ever created a lovelier thing than you, cousin Tess. To see that pretty mouth pouting and puffing away, without producing a single note.”

Leigh Lawson - Alec d'Urberville

“I feel God is nature and nature is beauty.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“Deep in the heart of Africa is a place no man has ever entered. The place that belongs to the lion, the elephant and the ape. A place known as the Bukuvu. Travellers flying overhead can only glimpse at its many marvels, its sparkling rivers, its lush veldts, its billowy cloud formations and its hidden mountains.”

Keith Scott - The Narrator

“- Helen Schlegel: Did you see the dawn?
- Leonard Bast: Yes. It suddenly got light.
- Helen Schlegel: And was it wonderful?
- Leonard Bast: No.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Helen Schlegel
Samuel West - Leonard Bast

“I am indeed beautiful. Sometimes I sit and wonder, in my artless Japanese way, why it is that I am so much more attractive than anybody else in the whole world. Can this be vanity? No! Nature is lovely, and rejoices in her loveliness. I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.”

Shirley Henderson - Leonora Braham