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Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost1874–1963Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)In context
- Change
- Nature
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
- Responsibility
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Galileo Galilei1564–1642Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), Salviati
- Science
If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931Sand and Foam (1926)
The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they’re seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?
André Gide1869–1951The Immoralist (1902), p. 159
- Art
In the Orthodox spiritual tradition, the ultimate moral question we ask is the following: Is what we are doing, is what I am doing, beautiful or not?
CGCarolyn Gifford
- Morality
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 609, trans. Stopp
- Science
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
Fulke Greville1554–1628
In old times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face.
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), The Frog-King, or Iron HenryIn context
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Touching Peace (1992), p. 1. Parallax Press
- Nature
Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Round Table (1815-1817), “On Manner”
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt1778–1830The Round Table (1815-1817), “On Manner”
- Women
Please God, make him think I am still pretty.
O. Henry1862–1910The Gift of the Magi (1905)In context
- Prayer
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Augustine of Hippo354–430XV, 22