It is not possible for a... man to walk across so much as a rood of the natural earth, with mind unagitated and rightly poised, without receiving strength and hope from some stone, flower, leaf, or sound, nor without a sense of a dew falling upon him out of the sky.

The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion, Part VII, Duty and Delight (p. 402), Wiley & Halsted. 1859