“Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,—for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
It is valuable, maybe even essential to be lost in the woods only then do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature-not until we are lost, until we have lost the world do we begin to find ourselves
