Scenery Quotes - Page 10

• To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

  John Muir

  Nature, Mountain, Landscape

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• No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

  Lucy Larcom

  Doors, Solitude, Employment

  Lucy Larcom (1875). “An Idyl of Work”, p.8

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• She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sea, Storm, Here And There

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• 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.

  P. T. Barnum

  Beautiful, Rocks, Romance

  "The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages". Book by P. T. Barnum, 1865.

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• When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Music, Beautiful, Art

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• In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Goal, Progress

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Trying, Nonsense

  "Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, a biography, by Julian Hawthorne".

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• You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where you can see forever. Stand on the very top, look all around the world, see all the scenery, and see with my own eyes what's been lost from the world.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Pyramids, Forever

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 18, 2016

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• One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

  Wallace Stegner

  Home, Optimistic, Quality

  "Wallace Stegner, the Rural West, and Me" by John McChesney, web.stanford.edu. July 05, 2011.

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• Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Space, Water

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Honesty, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 04, 2011

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• Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed in the right direction, but don't get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

  Douglas Pagels

  Thinking, Rushing, New Day

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• The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

  Frank Zappa

  Wall, Moving, Tables And Chairs

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