#myst

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#come #creep #entranced #everywhere #float

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#containing #face #invested #like #lover

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#allow #along #banned #beauty #courage

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beautiful country #began #between #country #end

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#authentic #being #forward #just #lean

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are. ↗

— Ted Allen

#away #critics #doing #get #great

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#books #called #children #few #first

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#creates #desire #man #mystery #understand

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious. ↗

— David Attenborough

#birds #feed #group #inhabit #kingdom

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#artist #deepen #job #mystery