The Place To Observe Nature Is Where

One Goes To Nature Only For Hints And Half-truths. Her Facts Are Crude Until You Have Absorbed Them Or Translated Them ... It Is Not So Much What We See As What The Thing Seen Suggests.

One Of The Hardest Lessons We Have To Learn In This Life, And One That Many Persons Never Learn, Is To See The Divine, The Celestial, The Pure, In The Common, The Near At Hand-to See That Heaven Lies About Us Here In This World.

My Group, The Lawyers Committee On Nuclear Policy, Was One Of The Principle Organizers. So, There Was This Campaign To Support The United Nations General Assembly In Asking The International Court Of Justice For An Advisory Opinion On The Legality Of Threat Or Use Of Nuclear Weapons.

I Want Nothing Less Than A Faith Founded Upon A Rock, Faith In The Constitution Of Things. The Various Man-made Creeds Are Fictitious, Like The Constellations Orion, Cassiopeia’s Chair, The Big Dipper; The Only Thing Real In Them Is The Stars, And The Only Thing Real In The Creeds Is The Soul’s Aspiration Toward The Infinite.

The Sunbeams Are Welcome Now. They Seem Like Pure Electricity—like Friendly And Recuperating Lightning. Are We Led To Think Electricity Abounds Only In Summer, When We See In The Storm-clouds As It Were, The Veins And Ore-beds Of It? I Imagine It Is Equally Abundant In Winter, And More Equable And Better Tempered. Who Ever Breasted A Snowstorm Without Being Excited And Exhilarated, As If This Meteor Had Come Charged With Latent Auroræ Of The North, As Doubtless It Has? It Is Like Being Pelted With Sparks From A Battery.