An Inspired Lens

an inspirational photoblog discovering beauty all around us

Posts tagged ‘spring’

mystery of spring

mystery of spring

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

It is the source of all true art and science.

He to whom the emotion is a stranger,

who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe,

is as good as dead —his eyes are closed.

~ Albert Einstein

dreamy magnolia

dreamy magnolia

And Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast

rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Sensitive Plant”

woodland path

woodland path

Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily,

suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night,

and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.”

~ Charlotte Bronte, in “Jane Eyre”

spring waterfall

spring waterfall

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant,

it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches,

and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.  

~ John Milton

blossom

blossom

Beauty is all that is glory and God is Beauty embodied, glory manifested.

This is what I crave: I hunger for Beauty…..

God revealing the weight of Himself, all His glory, through the looking glass of nature …

I pay tribute to God by paying attention.

~ Ann Voskamp