Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
ATTRIBUTION:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Nature, ch. 1 (1836, revised and repr. 1849).
By this Emerson means that as our moods change so too do our perceptions of the hues and shapes of nature. We are connected to the landscape and as we turn so does it.
