The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Interpretation
The beauty of the sky is essential and nourishing for our visual experience.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of nature, particularly the sky, in our daily lives. Just as bread sustains us physically, the beauty and grandeur of the sky provide spiritual and aesthetic nourishment to our souls, reminding us of the vastness and wonder of the world around us.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about appreciating nature during an outdoor event.
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?
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.
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