Rohini Nilekani Quotes

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air.

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

It's amazing the difference A bit of sky can make.

All land, no matter what has happened to it, has over it a grace, an absolutely persistent beauty.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

The mountains were there and so was I.

Look at the view and you'll never be disappointed.

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

Beautiful, see the cloud, the cloud appear. Beautiful, see the rain, the rain draw near.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small.