Brahms Quote by Edvard Grieg

The whole existence is a temple...the trees are continously in worship, the clouds are in prayer and the mountains are in meditation.

— Rajneesh

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the…

— Alfred Austin

The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

A temple is a landscape of the soul.

— Joseph Campbell

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

— Hal Borland

“The oblong tower of the church, with its wrought-iron steeple, caught the last reflections of the sun against the hills. This is what a…

— Elizabeth Bard

“Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies,…

— George Eliot

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously…

— Mimi Sheraton

I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will…

— Ciaran Carson

Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It…

— Guy de Maupassant

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely,…

— Samuel Johnson

I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

— Haruki Murakami