It was good to meet him in the wood-paths with that pure intellectual gleam diffused about his presence, like the garment of a shining one; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man as if expecting to receive more than he could impart.
Hawthorne
NATURE.
"Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know."