To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that only a few people genuinely appreciate the beauty of nature, including something as obvious as the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote reflects on the idea that many adults lose their ability to truly perceive and appreciate the wonders of nature. In a world filled with distractions and responsibilities, the simple beauty of natural elements, like the sun, often goes unnoticed, highlighting a deeper philosophical concern about awareness and presence in our lives.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a presentation on environmental awareness.
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?
I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and deeply spiritual, glorifying the smallest life-form and embracing the most distant stars.
Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.
With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
And Spring arose on the garden fair,_x000D_ _x000D_ Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;_x000D_ _x000D_ And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast_x000D_ _x000D_ rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
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