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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
merely show 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 compassion.
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,
labor,
climate,
food, locomotion,
the animals,
the mechanical forces, give us
sincerest lessons, day by day,
whose meaning is limitless.
They educate with understanding
through reason.
Every property of matter is a
school for the understanding, its solidity or résistance, 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; every animal function from the sponge up
to manmade laws of right
and wrong echo the Law of God.
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 affection of children
and the
respect of intelligent people;
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 you have
lived.
This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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