"Objects are concealed from our view not so much because they are out of the course of our visual ray as because there is no intention of the mind and eye toward them. We do not realize how far and widely, or how near and narrowly, we are to look. The greater part of the phenomena of nature are for this reason concealed to us all our lives."
"There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, - not a grain more."
Henry David Thoreau - Seeing - From the entry of Nov. 4, 1858: A rainy day.
It is up to the reader to determine what "landscape" they chose to apply the act of seeing towards....children, relationships and (most difficult) introspection are just as appropriate as the trees, grasses and hilltops surrounding Thoreau's Walden. - TK
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