Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
...therefore all childish fear must be put away.
In drying plants, botanists often dry themselves. Dry words and dry facts will not fire hearts.
I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.