Emerson and Nature

The two sentences I found very interesting to me were these two: “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.” As we mature in our lives, we loose that childhood sense of nature and the world around us. Adults are no longer capable of using their “infant” imagination, and they don’t appreciate what nature is doing for them. Only the adults that carry that same sense of nature from the time of their childhood can be fully aware and thankful of nature. This speaks to me really well. A lot of people tend to leave those things behind from their childhood. Although we grow up, we need to retain those childhood loves and appreciations. If do not do this, then we are doomed to not relish in all the beauty that nature presents.