#natur

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ↗

— John Muir

#beauty #body #body needs #bread #everybody

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#courage

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#beauty #heavens #nature #night #night-sky

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention. ↗

— Donald Miller

#god #inspirational #mountains #nature #praise

Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#beauty

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#earth #nature #strength #beauty

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#beauty-in-literature #beauty-in-nature #wodehouse #beauty

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. ↗

— Henri Poincaré

#life #nature #science #beauty

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#homosexuality #love #nature #parenting #sterility

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing. ↗

— Brian Morton

#descriptive #nature #beauty