| Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. ~George Santayana Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world...are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life. ~Rachel Carson (1907-1964) |
Exuberance is Beauty.
~William Blake
Not only in grass fields with green
leaf and running brook did this
constant desire find renewal. More
deeply still with living human
beauty; the perfection of form, the
simple fact of forms, ravished and
always will ravish me away. In this
lies the outcome and end of all the
loveliness of sunshine and green
leaf, of flowers, pure water and
sweet air. This is embodiment and
highest expression; the scattered,
uncertain, and designless
loveliness of tree and sunshine
brought to shape. Through this
beauty I prayed deepest and
longest, and down to this hour.
The shape the divine idea of that
shape the swelling muscle or the
dreamy limb, strong sinew or
curve of bust, Aphrodite or
Hercules, it is the same. That I
may have the soul-life, the
soul-nature, let the divine beauty
bring to me divine soul.
~Richard Jefferies, The Story of
My Heart
Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see:
Over the verge of the sundown,
The beauty that is to be.
~ Bliss Carman
~William Blake
Not only in grass fields with green
leaf and running brook did this
constant desire find renewal. More
deeply still with living human
beauty; the perfection of form, the
simple fact of forms, ravished and
always will ravish me away. In this
lies the outcome and end of all the
loveliness of sunshine and green
leaf, of flowers, pure water and
sweet air. This is embodiment and
highest expression; the scattered,
uncertain, and designless
loveliness of tree and sunshine
brought to shape. Through this
beauty I prayed deepest and
longest, and down to this hour.
The shape the divine idea of that
shape the swelling muscle or the
dreamy limb, strong sinew or
curve of bust, Aphrodite or
Hercules, it is the same. That I
may have the soul-life, the
soul-nature, let the divine beauty
bring to me divine soul.
~Richard Jefferies, The Story of
My Heart
Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see:
Over the verge of the sundown,
The beauty that is to be.
~ Bliss Carman
| If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. ~Vincent Van Gogh Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ~Henry Miller Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know. ~John Keats (1795-1821) Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~Edgar Allen Poe |
Beauty is momentary in the mind
- The fitful tracing of a portal; But
in the flesh it is immortal. The
Body dies; the body's beauty
lives. So evenings die, in their
green going, A wave, interminably
flowing. So gardens die, their
meek breath scenting, The cowl of
Winter, done repenting.
~Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955,
Peter Quince and the Clavier
- The fitful tracing of a portal; But
in the flesh it is immortal. The
Body dies; the body's beauty
lives. So evenings die, in their
green going, A wave, interminably
flowing. So gardens die, their
meek breath scenting, The cowl of
Winter, done repenting.
~Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955,
Peter Quince and the Clavier
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