Delight Quote by Charles Darwin

“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight…

— Charles Darwin

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

— Lyonel Feininger

I love the woods even more than the ocean.

— Steven Tyler

A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see…

— Augustus William Hare

What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath…

— Virginia Woolf

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the…

— Anonymous

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

— Victoria Alexander

There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We…

— Guy de Maupassant

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of…

— Eleanor Catton

I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

— Gene Wolfe

I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture,…

— Michael Light

The plane approaches Cape Town and, as always, I am astonished by the view of Table Mountain and the surrounding sea. It is so…

— Justin Cartwright