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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Every summer morning seems to be the first in the world. Each twilight seems to be the last, solemn agony, announced at sunset by a final glow that darkens every hue. The sea is ultramarine, the road the color of clotted blood, the beach yellow. Everything disappears with the green sun; an hour later the dunes are bathed in moonlight. Then there are incomparable nights under a rain of stars.”
— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Tagged: Nature, Stars, beauty, Summer, Summer Morning, Twilight, Dunes, Sunset
“Flowers exemplify the fragile balance between beauty and pleasure on the one hand and decay on the other: both a symbol and instance of beauty, they are always already dying at the peak of their bloom.”
— Wayne M. Martin, A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism
Tagged: Flowers, Death and Life, The Balance
“The birds sang passionate songs addressed to one ear only and then stopped. Bubbling and chuckling they carried little bits of straw and twig to the dark knots in the higher branches of the trees. Gilt and purpled they perched in the garden, where cones of laburnum and purple shook down gold and lilac, for now at midday the garden was all blossom and profusion and even the tunnels under the plants were green and purple and tawny as the sun beat through the red petal, or the broad yellow petal, or was barred by some thickly furred green stalk.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Song of Birds, Nature Descriptions
“A green world, a scene of green deep with light blues, the greens made deep by those blues. The air we breathe is freshly sweet, and warm, as though with berries. We are here. We are here. The earth is beautiful beyond all change.”
— William Bronk, The World, The Worldless
Tagged: Green, Blue, Nature
“It is not the poet's task, nor is it within his power, to give birth to a new religion. At most he may keep open the space or possibility for some new revelation. How this might come about—why, when, where, above all whether—remains imponderable, but there is little doubt that, in the present age, it could happen only in some catacombal space.”
— Robert Pogue Harrison, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
Tagged: Poetizing, Preparing A Readiness, Reconfigures
“Already desiring to explore inside and out 
the divine forest, so dense and alive, 
which tempered the new day before my eyes, 
without delay I left the bank, proceeding slowly through the country 
whose ground exuded fragrance everywhere.”
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Tagged: Forests, Nature
“A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out. ”
— George Lichtenberg, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
Tagged: Mirrors, Writing, Books, Literature, Best Reading Quotes
“Do not go to human civilization. Stay in the forest! Go rather even to the animals! Be as I am—a bear among bears, a bird among birds. ”
— Fredriech Nietzche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Nature, Birds, Bears
“You great star. What would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine? ”
— Fredriech Nietzche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Stars, Nature, Beauty as Change
“The trees like lungs filling with air.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
Tagged: Trees, Nature, Lungs