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?
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
The whole of nature cries out at our mistreatment of her. If the planet were a patient, we would have treated her long ago.
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
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