Delight Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my…

— Helen Keller

“On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.”

— Frederick Franck

“If your mind and spirit are seduced by images of windswept ridge tops, flutters of aspen leaves caressed by a canyon breeze and the…

— Reid Lance Rosenthal

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with…

— Washington Irving

In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation.

— Steven Rinella

“I was suddenly made aware of another world of beauty and mystery such as I had never imagined to exist, except in poetry. It…

— Bede Griffiths

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.”

— Victor Hugo

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Important events — whether serious, happy or unfortunate — do not change a man's soul, they merely bring it into relief, just as a…

— Irene Nemirovsky

“There must be a glowing light above such houses. The joy they contain must escape in light through the stones of the walls and…

— Victor Hugo