Scenery Quotes

• We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Death, Health

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.16, Harmony

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• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Missing You, Retirement

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• 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.

  Washington Irving

  Nature, Soul, Noble

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• Delight in the scenery of each day.

  Douglas Pagels

  Joy, Delight, Each Day

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.

  Thomas Cole

  Sunset, Sky, Soul

  "The collected essays and prose sketches".

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• I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

  Sylvia Plath

  Happiness, Nature, Air

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• Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

  John Ruskin

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

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• Scenery without solace is meaningless.

  Mitch Albom

  Solace, Meaningless

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

  John Keats

  Human Nature, Fine, Humans

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 13 March 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 242

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• A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure.

  Robert Doisneau

  Beautiful, Treasure, Photographer

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• When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Autumn, Tranquillity

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• A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.

  Barbara Holland

  Spiritual, Eye, Sight

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• A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Thinking, People

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• Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted snowdrift which caps the peak of a lofty mountain there trickles into tiny rills, which hurry along north, south, east and west, and growing to rivers, at last pour their currents into three seas. From this mountain-peak the Pacific and the Arctic oceans and the Gulf of Mexico receive each its tribute. Here is a land of striking scenery.

  George Bird Grinnell

  Lying, Ocean, Sea

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• The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Imagination, Sublime, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.136, Xist Publishing

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• Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Wish, Wish You

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• Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

  Margaret Drabble

  Violent, Stimulants

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• In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

  Ivanka Trump

  Travel, Inspire, Jewelry

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• Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.

  Douglas Horton

  Enjoy

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• I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hiking, Church, Mountain

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “An inland voyage. Travels with a donkey. The amateur emigrant. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays”

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• Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Leadership, Dog, Race

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• Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

  Jim Henson

  School, College, Years

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• An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

  Jeremy Irons

  Love, Age, Acting

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Trying, Detours

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Running, Thinking

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