How gray the sky is, how cold, how quiet. And snow from that sky still comes to waiting earth, white falling on white in England. And white and white and white in night and morning. And with morning white falls on white. So this talk has been for the purpose of seeing nature as a tremendous study in unity and variety, in their fullest meaning.
All art is that too.
And if we use nature that way, we can come to understand the difficulties, puzzlements, excruciations, unbearabilities that people undergo. Otherwise, we are using nature not to understand, but as a sort of second, soothing, unwise mother. That is not the way nature wants to be. Nature can soothe, because through it we can like the source of things even when some of the manifestations are pretty horrible. The purpose of nature is to understand everything, including things in apartments in cities, and subways.