Perfect

Famous quotes containing the word perfect:

    We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood.... What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    With sudden roar and aged pine-tree falls,—
    One crash, the death-hymn of the perfect tree,
    Declares the close of its green century.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)