To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.
Interpretation
Nature helps restore and rejuvenate the weary body and mind.
This quote emphasizes the healing power of nature for individuals burdened by stressful work and toxic environments. It suggests that stepping away from the chaotic urban life and immersing oneself in the tranquility of nature allows a person to rediscover their true self and regain their vitality, indicating a deep connection between the natural world and personal well-being.
In practice
During a corporate retreat, we took a walk in the forest to reconnect with ourselves, remembering Emerson's belief in the restorative power of nature.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
I pledge allegiance to the soil _x000D_ of Turtle Island, _x000D_ and to the beings who thereon dwell _x000D_ one ecosystem _x000D_ in diversity _x000D_ under the sun _x000D_ With joyful interpenetratio n for all.
Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.
Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
After the Green Revolution, I came up with the concept of the Evergreen Revolution. In this we will see increase in farm productivity but without ecological harm.
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