March 19, 2008
In nature, if you want to truly experience it, you cannot just look at it, you must use all of your senses to experience it. C.S. Lewis says that to have a love of nature, you cannot discriminate against any of its parts. He explains this by refering to a painter who merely sees a scene; he does not feel it or listen to it. Lewis says you must "Look. Listen," and feel the moods of the place. If you allow yourself to use all of your senses to experience and love nature, then you will be moved by its moods of time and season, and you will recognize the spirit of a place. Your understanding of nature in its various forms will enable you to more greatly appreciate and connect with it. It's similar to the saying, "you can't judge a book by its cover." You can't just see something to know it, you must listen to it and interact with it to know and love the spirit of it. When you concern yourself with an act of discrimination by not realizing every part of a place, you cannot truly love it because you do not know it. Annd when you critiqu it by experiencing it with a biased mindset, you are preventing yourself from understanding it because you are trying to experience it in a way that is does not exist. You cannot define nature, let nature define itself for you.
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