Early autumn morning inspiration from Emerson

Morning folks. I couldn’t ask for a more beautiful and perfect autumn morning, curling up with a hot cup of coffee and reading “The Method of Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson on my porch. Here, I share with you his ever true and resonating words on the connecting systems of nature and importance of the whole:

But Nature seems further to reply, ‘I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature. I have not yet arrived at any end. The gardener aims to produce a fine peach or pear, but my aim is the health of the whole tree, — root, stem, leaf, flower, and seed, — and by no means the pampering of a monstrous pericarp at the expense of all other functions.’

In short, the spirit and peculiarity of that impression natures makes on us in this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends, but to numberless and endless benefit; that there is in it no private will, no rebel leaf or limb, but the whole is oppressed by one superincumbent tendency, obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.