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?
Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, β whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand.
There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.
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