The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown.
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- Nature (1836); Exact wording and attribution checked. Transcendentalist reflections on natural beauty and the relation of the perceiving mind to the natural world.
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