“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.”
Discovering yourself for many can mean venturing out in the outside nature to truly get away and have your personal time to analyze who you are and what meaning you can hold. Emerson describes in nature that a genuine and real impacting time of self-discovery can occur in nature, because of its innocent surroundings, and its unaffecting youthfulness that one achieves when being in a state of solitude. So often, as we age we take for granted the small and natural essences of life that we once so much appreciated before. So eventually as time progresses, nature to only a few, or perhaps even those who allow themselves to accept a moment of separation from the materialistic dilemmas they have, can really see and appreciate rare experiences nature can offer.
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