Writing Is the Greatest Thing, Right?

The first in time and the first in importance of the influence upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun and after sunset, night and her stars, ever the winds blow, ever the grass grows. By and by the mind finds out how to join two things and see them in one nature. And so tyrannized over by its own unifying instincts, it goes on tying things together,. diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running underground, et cetera.