“All things and all acts and this whole wonderful universe proclaim to us the Lord our Father, Christ our love, Christ our hope, our portion, and our joy. Oh, brethren, if you would know the meaning of the world, read Christ in it. If you would see the beauty of earth, take it for a prophet of something higher than itself.” IfsKnowsWorldWholeEarthJoyUniverseFatherChristNatureLordWonderfulHigherAll ThingsProphetPortionsOur LoveOur FatherBrethren Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.” MadeWould BeLanguageNatureImaginationAnimalThousandTenSpeechTragedyBurdenBeastPortionsOur ThoughtsDisappearanceSilencingBeast Of Burden Book:A Field Guide to Getting Lost Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.” MenDreamSpiritNatureBornAbsolutesImmortalityAspirationContentmentSparksPortions Author:Robert Southey