#nature

Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace and a beauty that no artifice could compete with and that he found restorative. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#wilderness #beauty

I took me to the Banks of the River, and tarried there awhile, as the lowering Sun made one with the Water, giving generously of Itself & its Diverse Colors, in a Splay of Magnificence that preceded a most wonderful Silence. ↗

— George Saunders

#nature #silence #beauty

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely. ↗

— Carl Safina

#conservation #hope #nature #change

To watch the dawn emerge from the night undoubtedly gives a heavenly feeling! The fresh sun rays entwine with the dark horizon and peep out of the creek with tranquil grin. ↗

— Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#love #nature #beauty

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#nature #beauty

The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#nature #world #beauty

In autumn velvety shawls of maroon and sienna drape hillsides that fold down upon willow-braided streams. ↗

— Robert Kaplan

#beauty

A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again. ↗

— Mikhail Lermontov

#childish #feeling #nature #soul #experience

It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed, but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed. ↗

— Jasmine Jean

#insect #life #nature #spider #beauty

Sophie picked her way through the forest, stepping over tree roots, and pushing aside low-lying branches, letting them snap back behind her with reckless abandon. The sun barely squeaked through the canopy of leaves above her, and down at ground level, it felt more like dusk than midday. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#beauty