Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Interpretation
Your perception shapes your experience of nature and literature.
This quote emphasizes the idea that nature and books hold value only to those who can truly see and appreciate them. It suggests that awareness and perception are crucial in experiencing and understanding the beauty and wisdom present in both the natural world and literature. Without a discerning eye, the treasures of nature and knowledge in books remain unrecognized, highlighting the importance of mindfulness and awareness in our engagements with the world around us.
In practice
During a nature walk, one might say this quote to encourage deeper observation.
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?
How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.
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