Hermann Hesse Quotes

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing. Nothing is boring if you look at it carefully.

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

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

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

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.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

I always notice flowers.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

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

Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.

I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.