Thomas Cole Quotes

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

On all the peaks lies peace.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.