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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
The soul preserves beauty.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
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.
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.