Quotes About Contemplation

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

If I can't sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a lonely leaf.

The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.

There are 200, 000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.

...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.

Something inside me stops the moment I see a mighty mountain.

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.

Sometimes you have to sit alone and enjoy the nature and try to see in the sky transparent faces.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.