Norway Landscape
The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom... The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? There is constant life in Nature, motion and development; and yet she remains where she was. She is eternally changing, nor for a moment does she stand still. Of rest she knows nothing, and to all stagnation she has affixed her curse. She is steadfast; her step is measured, her exceptions rare, her laws immutable. Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oscar Wilde
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