My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of …

- Karl Blossfeldt

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

- Karl Blossfeldt

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels e…

- Karl Blossfeldt

If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice a…

- Karl Blossfeldt