Nature Worship - Forms and Aspects of Nature Worship

Famous quotes containing the words forms and, forms, aspects, nature and/or worship:

“I had a glimpse through curtain laces
Of youthful forms and youthful faces.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“All the aspects of this desert are beautiful, whether you behold it in fair weather or foul, or when the sun is just breaking out after a storm, and shining on its moist surface in the distance, it is so white, and pure, and level, and each slight inequality and track is so distinctly revealed; and when your eyes slide off this, they fall on the ocean.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“To eat steak rare ... represents both a nature and a morality.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

“We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcæ, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)