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The ancient Greeks called the
Earth 'beauty'.
Such
is the substance of things,
plastic power of the human eye,
primary forms,
the sky, the
mountain, the tree,
the animal, all give us a
delight in and of 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 through
Life.
Beauty shimmers in the yellow afternoons of
October.
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 that 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;
snake is subtle spite;
flowers express delicate
affections.
Light and
darkness are familiar expressions for
knowledge and
ignorance; and
heat for compassion.
In
view of the significance of nature we see 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 premonitions of reason;
conscience reflection.
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.
Nature, the ally of
religion, lends pomp and riches to
religious sentiment.
Prophet and priest, David, Isaiah, Jesus, have drawn deeply from
nature.
This ethical character penetrates the bone and marrow of
nature.
The aspect of
Nature is devout.
She kneels,
breathing life into reality, hand outstretched toward life.
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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