Beauty Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

~ There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it. ~

Olaus J. Murie

~ Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth... It is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed. ~

Sigurd F. Olson

~ Beauty created by Nature is equal in value to, and to be accorded reverence equal to that of the beauty of music, art or poetry of man, and experts are available to testify as to degrees of natural beauty just as they are able to testify to the quality of mortalsí art. ~

David Sive

~ "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is 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." ~

Rachel Carson

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

Rachel Carson

~ The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues ñ self-restraint. ~

Edwin Way Teale

~ Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. ~

John Zimmerman

~ The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. ~

Camille Paglia

~ Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ~

Louisa May Alcott

~ Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them. ~

Louisa May Alcott

~ If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water. ~

JAN ERIK VOLD

~ I have left almost to the last the magic of water, an element which owing to its changefulness of form and mood and colour and to the vast range of its effects is ever the principal source of landscape beauty, and has like music a mysterious influence over the mind. ~

Sir George Sitwell

~ Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. ~

Galileo Galilei

~ Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. ~

Claude Debussy

~ For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm. ~

Edwin Way Teale

~ “Beauty is all about us, but how may are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.” ~

Pablo Casals

~ I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ~

Titus Maccius Plautus

~ Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ~

Jean Rostand

~ If we do not permit the Earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either. ~

Joseph Woodkrutch

~ By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration. ~

E.F. Schumacher

~ Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood. ~

Billy Graham

~ Beauty is all about us, but how may are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate. ~

Pablo Casals

~ The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. ~

William Wordsworth

~ O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. ~

Christopher Marlowe

~ Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ~

Ouida

~ Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. ~

Dodie Smith

~ Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ~

Serge Gainsbourg

~ Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. ~

L.M. Montgomery

~ Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac. ~

Mason Cooley

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