Novalis Quotes

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.

Nature is the purest thing we can touch and observe. It can be the most beautiful and also the most devastating.

My engagement with mountains, rivers, and forests has been right from my childhood. I have lived in the jungles by myself; I have floated down rivers. So, I didn't experience these rivers, mountains, forests as some mythological figures but as thriving, living entities.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

The wonders of nature are endless.

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

The world is its own magic.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.