Siegfried Woldhek Quotes

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

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

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

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

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

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.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

There is not a sprig of grass that grows uninteresting to me.

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

I think we get used to not seeing the green things around us. I think they become the backdrop of our lives. And I think you actively have to ask somebody to request that they put that in the foreground.

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

Beauty surrounds us.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

I always notice flowers.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.