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Eye Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a…
- The eye is the jewel of the body.
- Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and…
- Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period,…
- For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do…
- All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
- I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under…
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
- My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at…
- Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits…
- All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere…
- The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
- A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
- Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
- Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
- The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
- Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty.…
- Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high…
- Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its…
- Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to…
- Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography
- A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own…
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- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila