Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

I love the mountains, the light. I'm a real light junkie.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

Awe and respect are two different things.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

Land really is the best art.

With wonder, admiration, and reverential awe, one may contemplate the vastness with which he finds himself here surrounded, the perfusion of nature's bounties, and sublimity of scenery, but to describe them, to picture them as they are, is beyond the scope of human capacity.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

No matter what one looks at and finds temporarily pleasing, it can never be as beautiful as just a tree, really.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Don't criticize nature, stand in awe of it.

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.