Densey Clyne famous quotes

The difference between me and a butterfly is that the butterfly looks at a flower with no purpose in mind but to sip nectar. The flower feeds its body while for me the colours and shapes and scents of flowers feed my heart. But how arrogant of me to assume that the butterfly does not feel its miniscule heart also soar for no reason other than touching and being touched by beauty!
-- Densey Clyne

#Beauty #Flower #Butterfly

A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality.
-- Densey Clyne

#Beauty #Inspiration #Believe

Autumn in my garden is when trees give their tickertape welcome to winter.
-- Densey Clyne

#Autumn #Winter #Garden

I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is asked to do. No pains are too great, no revisions too tedious no matter how small the result. But I also believe that while humility should not be overdone, excellence should never be taken for granted, otherwise we stop reaching for it.
-- Densey Clyne

#Pain #Motivation #Believe

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
-- Densey Clyne

#Wisdom #Cliche #Insight

Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.
-- Densey Clyne

#Wisdom #Fall #Insomnia

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.
-- Densey Clyne

#Wisdom #Disease #Causes

Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever our beliefs about the hereafter we are the temporary custodians of the here-and-now, and if we neglect our obligations or abuse our powers then we abrogate any rights to a further share in this planet's delights.
-- Densey Clyne

#Responsibility #Animal #Rights

I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean...
-- Densey Clyne

#Nature #Believe #Ocean

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.

You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.

Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

I want to chase the butterflies.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.