Darkness Quote by Victor Hugo

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently,…

— Henry Fielding

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

— William Wordsworth

. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should…

— Thomas Cole

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite:…

— Thomas Mann

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

— George A. Smith

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

— George Dana Boardman Pepper

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

— Jostein Gaarder

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value…

— Simone Weil

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who…

— Octavio Paz

“Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by…

— Francis Bacon

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson