In order to depict nature in its exalted sublimity, we must not dwell exclusively on its external manifestations, but we must trace its image, reflected in the mind of man, at one time filling the dreamy land of physical myths with forms of grace and beauty, and at another developing the noble germ of artistic creations.


Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe (Volume 2), Description of Nature by the Ancients (p. 20), Harper & Brothers. 1869

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

In order to depict nature in its exalted sublimity, we must not dwell exclusively on its external manifestations, but we must trace its image,...

In order to depict nature in its exalted sublimity, we must not dwell exclusively on its external manifestations, but we must trace its image,...

In order to depict nature in its exalted sublimity, we must not dwell exclusively on its external manifestations, but we must trace its image,...

In order to depict nature in its exalted sublimity, we must not dwell exclusively on its external manifestations, but we must trace its image,...