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"A nobler want of
man is served by
nature, namely, the
love of 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."
"To laugh often and much;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in
others;
to leave the earth
a bit better, whether by a healthy child,
to know that
even one life has breathed easier because
your have lived.
"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
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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