The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
Interpretation
True happiness comes from understanding and appreciating nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote suggests that the ultimate happiness can be attained through a deep connection with nature. By observing and learning from the natural world, we gain insight and wisdom that enrich our lives, inviting us to adopt an attitude of reverence and gratitude towards the environment around us.
In practice
In a speech about environmental conservation, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson wisely noted, the happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.'
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?
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest,living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
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