Jimmy Dean Quotes

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

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.

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

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life.

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

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

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

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

If you understand how a rainbow works, it does not make it less magnificent; it makes it more magnificent.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

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.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

The age of miracles is forever here.

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.