"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
― Rowan D. Williams
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From Rowan D. Williams
- "Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."
- "Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."
- "So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."
More In Beauty
- "It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction."― Richard Le Gallienne
- "There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight."― Gertrude Jekyll
- "There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see."― Vera Brittain