"A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of beauty.

The ancient Greeks called the Earth 'beauty'.

Such is the substance of all things, or such the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary forms, as the sky, the mountain, the tree, the animal, give us a delight in and for themselves; a pleasure arising from outline, color, motion, and grouping.

This appears partly owing to the eye itself.

The eye is the best of artists.

But this beauty of nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part.

The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom,
stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted,
become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and it is mere tinsel;
it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.

The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?

Go forth to find it, and it is gone; it is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,
and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its image.

An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch.
A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite; flowers express to us the delicate affections.

Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love.

In view of the significance of nature, we arrive at once at a new fact, that nature is a branch of knowledge.

This use of the Earth includes the preceding uses, as parts of itself.

Space, time, society, labor, climate, food, locomotion, the animals, the mechanical forces,
give us sincerest lessons, day by day, whose meaning is limitless.

They educate both the understanding and the reason.

Every property of matter is a school for the understanding,
its solidity or resistance, its inertia, its extension, its figure, its divisibility.
The understanding adds, divides, combines, measures, and finds nutriment and room for its activity in this worthy scene. Meantime, reason transfers all these lessons into its own world of thought,
by perceiving the analogy that marries matter and mind.

Sensible objects conform to the premonitions of reason and reflect the conscience.

All natural things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven, every chemical change from the simplest crystal up to the laws of life, every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf, to the tropical forest and antediluvian coal mine, every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong, and echo the Ten Commandments.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of religion: lends all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Prophet and priest, David, Isaiah, Jesus, have drawn deeply from nature.

This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature, as to appear the end for which it was made.

The aspect of Nature is devout.

Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship."

Success

"To laugh often and much;

to win the respect of intelligent

people and the affection of children;

to earn the appreciation of honest critics

and endure the betrayal of false friends;

to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;

to leave the earth a bit better, whether by a healthy child,

a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

to know that even one life has breathed easier because your have lived.

This is to have succeeded."

"Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson , American poet and philosopher

"Ralph Waldo Emerson saw religious thought as the development of our innate senses of the good, the true and the beautiful, and said that these senses were like a divine presence within us, or that we were all a part of God. The way Ralph Waldo Emerson saw it, salvation would mean getting in touch with these deep sensitivities we have, and living out of them – living lives of truth, justice and compassion." - Davidson Loehr

See Ian Player

See John Muir

See Edward Abbey

See Rachel Carson

See Charles Darwin

See Henry David Thoreau

See John Wesley Powell

See Marcus Aurelius V

See Thomas Aquinas

See Rene Descartes

See David Hume

See John Stuart Mills

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