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?
If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But Iβm a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.
I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.
Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.
Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,_x000D_ _x000D_ The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,_x000D_ _x000D_ Drops in a silent autumn night._x000D_ _x000D_ All its allotted length of days_x000D_ _x000D_ The flower ripens in its place,_x000D_ _x000D_ Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,_x000D_ _x000D_ Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.
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