Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Natural Beauties
George Berkeley (1685-1753), Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1901), p. 62:
Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), California Spring
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Look! are not the fields covered with a delightful verdure? Is there not something in the woods and groves, in the rivers and clear springs, that soothes, that delights, that transports the soul? At the prospect of the wide and deep ocean, or some huge mountain whose top is lost in the clouds, or of an old gloomy forest, are not our minds filled with a pleasing horror? Even in rocks and deserts is there not an agreeable wildness? How sincere a pleasure is it to behold the natural beauties of the earth!
