It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.
To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.
Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.
I saw the sunset forty-four times!
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
