Nature and wisdom …

… Mother Nature’s Step-Son – Idlings. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

You might say that nature is a vision rather than a catechism. It may serve to illustrate or illumine a philosophy but it does not impart one. As Lewis writes, “Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and infinite majesty. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me.”

Though, when alone in the woods, I have often sensed what I took to be the transcendent.