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In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
And as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters.
All the facts in natural history taken by themselves, have no value, but are barren, like a single sex. But marry it to human history, and it is full of life.
The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches, "This will be found contrary to all experience, yet is true;" had already transferred nature into the mind, and left matter like an outcast corpse.
'The foundations of man are not in matter, but in spirit. But the element of spirit is eternity.
