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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 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 chemicalchange
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
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
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
"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 |
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