I’m an aesthete in the strictest sense of the word. My husband jokes that one day I’ll crash the car trying to look at all the wildflowers growing on the sides of the freeway. My brain reacts differently than a lot of people’s when I am encountered with the beauty of nature and/or art. If you asked a neuroscientist, my anterior insula is hypersensitive to the emotional response evoked in my brain by aesthetics. Nature and art, in particular, are at the core of the “aesthete” nature. We feel it deep in our souls and in our bones. So if you consider yourself a fellow aesthete, here are some quotes just for you to pin and share later.

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