James Thomson Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

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.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

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.

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

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.

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.

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.

There is nothing as special as watching greatness.

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

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.

I live near a beautiful park, and when I walk around it, the beauty of it can take your breath away. It makes you realize there is something bigger, certainly bigger than me.

Nature is so phenomenal.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.