We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the profound connection between humanity and the natural world, suggesting that we encounter the divine through our experiences in nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the spiritual and transformative experiences we have in nature, suggesting that every moment spent observing and engaging with the natural world brings us closer to the divine. By recognizing and savoring these moments, we can experience a deeper understanding of life and a sense of connection to something greater than ourselves.
In practice
During a speech at a nature conservation event, a speaker might quote this to emphasize the importance of preserving our natural environments.
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?
You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.
Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.
The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.
Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.
The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
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