![]() ![]() His intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food. Who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other The sun illuminates only the eye of the man but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. ![]() At least they have a very superficial seeing. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this, their warranty deeds give no title. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timber of the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet. We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. When we speak of nature in this manner, we have a distinct but most poetical sense in the mind. ![]() The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. The Stars Awaken a Certain Reverence, Because Though Always Present, They Are Inaccessible īut all natural objects make a kindred impression when the mind is open to their influence. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty and light the universe with their admonishing smile. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. ![]()
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