I made my way to Des Moines, IA, today and set up for this weekend’s ArtFest Midwest at the Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fair Grounds. It was a pleasant drive, and I discovered this week that I could do an internet search for “free audio books”, which yielded quite a few offerings. So, I listened to part of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature” on my way. Here’s an excerpt:
“To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”
More to come…