C. S. Lewis Quotes

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

What wonders lie in every mountain day!

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.

Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.

Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.

The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.

Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.

Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.