Transparent

Famous quotes containing the word transparent:

    “Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.”
    —Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

    “ethereal, their mauve
    almost a transparent gray,
    their dark veins
    bruise-blue.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts. The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)