09-28-2009, 12:00 AM
Thanks for your good post here Hawthorne, here is another complimentary quote from Thoreau:
It is as bad to study the stars and clouds as flowers and stones. I must let my senses wander as my thoughts, my eyes see it without looking. Carlyle said that
how to observe is to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe...Be not preoccupied with looking. Go not to the
object; let it come to you.
It is as bad to study the stars and clouds as flowers and stones. I must let my senses wander as my thoughts, my eyes see it without looking. Carlyle said that
how to observe is to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe...Be not preoccupied with looking. Go not to the
object; let it come to you.

