timeless tranquility Quotes

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.

Nature's old felicities.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.