“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
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