John Muir Quotes

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so impressive. This is when architecture can be king and give people sensations, like music.

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.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is just perfect-looking. Whether she's walking down the street, she looks so regal and elegant all the time, and I love that.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

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.

Beauty arises out of human inspiration.

It is not night when I do see your face.

[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.

I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

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.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.