The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times

by Alfred Biese

[6]: Mélanges philosophiques, historiques, et littéraires.

[7]: Homily 4.

[8]: Homily 6.

[9]: Biese, Die Entwickelung des Naturgefühls bei den Griechen und Römern.

'In spring the Cydmian apple trees give blossom watered by river streams in the hallowed garden of the nymphs; in spring the buds grow and swell beneath the leafy shadow of the vine branch. But my heart knoweth no season of respite; nay, like the Thracian blast that rageth with its lightning, so doth it bear down from Aphrodite's side, dark and fearless, with scorching frenzy in its train, and from its depths shaketh my heart with might.'

[10]: Comp. Biese, op. cit.

[11]: Deutsche Rundschau, 1879.

[12]: Comp. Biese, op. cit.

[13]: Chrysostom was not only utilitarian, but praised and enjoyed the world's beauty. From the fifth to third century, Greek progress in feeling for Nature can be traced from unconscious to conscious pleasure in her beauty.

[14]: De Mortalitate, cap. 4.