Jacqueline du Pre Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

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 know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

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.

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 not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

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.

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 just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

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.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

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