Albert Schweitzer Quotes

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.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

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.

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

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.

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.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

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

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.

There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

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

'Flower' is about the sublime.

Wonder is the salt of the earth.

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.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

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

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.

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

A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.

A forest of these trees is a spectacle too much for one man to see.

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