Diane Paulus Quotes

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

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.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

Good God what a fine sight. I had no conception that there was such a scene in the world, and to find it in my own dominions.

I am inspired and affected by Aspen, the light and the landscape and the natural world.

At Wembley, everything is bigger, wider; the atmosphere is different.

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 sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

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

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

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.

For the European who came from a community of congestion and confinement, the West was beyond dreaming; it must have inspired him to formulate an idea of the infinite. There he could walk through geologic time; he could see into eternity.

I did a film once in the Sahara. It was pretty awe-inspiring. I remember sitting up on the roof of our hotel, watching the sun go down, and all around me, for 360 degrees, was nothing but sand. It took your breath away but also made you feel tiny.

There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.

Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.

Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.