John Glenn Quotes

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.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

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.

Nature's beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.

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

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

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.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

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.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

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?

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

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

There are so many opportunities to see the sun go down in the evening and the sun come up in the morning. The colors change on the trees, on the snow. I'm surrounded by people who are friendly and helpful.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.