Quotes about Beauty
Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
— Martin Luther
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
— Pablo Picasso
The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.
— Charles Swindoll
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
— Albert Schweitzer
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
— Virginia Woolf
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
— William Faulkner
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
— DH Lawrence
A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.
— John Bunyan
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
— Henry David Thoreau