Somewhere unwritten poems wait, like lonely lakes not seen by anyone.
— Anna Kamieńska, from her notebook (1968), in Astonishments, translated by Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to talk to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
— Herman Hesse
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
— Henry David Thoreau
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
— Peter Nivio Zarlenga
To me photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place; I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
— Elliot Erwitt
Walk tall as the trees
Live strong as the mountain
Be gentle as the spring wind
Keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart
and the great spirit will always be with you. — Ojibwa quote
Live strong as the mountain
Be gentle as the spring wind
Keep the warmth of the summer sun in your heart
and the great spirit will always be with you. — Ojibwa quote
You can’t receive what you don’t give. Outflow determines inflow.
— Eckhart Tolle
The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence that we may well wonder what “the story of the trees” would be to us if they had tongues to tell it or we ears fine enough to understand.
— Author Unknown, quoted in Quotations for Special Occassions by Maud van Buren, 1938
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
— Claude Monet
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful… and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
— Desmond Tutu
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