#nature

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#enchantment #family #fascinates #fiery #gives

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#around #bunch #dependent #else #grapes

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #beauty

This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#love #nature #death

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#believe #beyond #depending #dream #existence

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#always #been #exact #impression #intimate

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#ape #autumn #beauty #dying #escape

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#art #dear #flesh #god #how

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#breathing #celestial #itself #love #love is

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#beauty #constitutes #garden #mountain #ugly