A Winter's Tale
Polixenes. Say, there be: Yet nature is made better by no mean,
But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art
Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art
That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry
A gentler scion to the wildest stock;
And make conceive a bark of baser kind
By bud of nobler race. This is an art
Which does mend nature, change it rather: but
The art itself is nature.
(4.3.88)
-Talking about flowers becuase she's been giving flowers to different people
--It is the art that nature makes. Wild+Gentle mate: art and nature.
Goes on to talk about the art of the gardener. wild and unfruly nature=way for humanity to perfect things foudn in nature. The human hand refines.
-Art=agent of nature.
--Birthing, having children, breeding.
-Pure breeds are more desirable.
*play challenges superiority of aristocratic blood.
Nature+art= important for his purposes.

-Komel Soin