Nature Mysticism quote by Richard Jefferies/Green way wisdom,natural beauty

Vladimir Volegov painting


Not only in grass fields with green leaf and running
brook did this constant desire find renewal.
More deeply still with living human beauty;
the perfection of form, the simple fact of forms,
ravished and always will ravish me away.
In this lies the outcome and end of all the loveliness
of sunshine and green leaf, of flowers, pure water and
sweet air. This is embodiment and highest expression;
the scattered, uncertain, and designless loveliness
of tree and sunshine brought to shape.
Through this beauty I prayed deepest and longest, and
down to this hour. The shape the divine idea of that
shape the swelling muscle or the dreamy limb, strong
sinew or curve of bust, Aphrodite or Hercules, it is
the same. That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature,
let the divine beauty bring to me divine soul.
Richard Jefferies, The Story of My Heart

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