• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.  I am not alone and unacknowledged.  They nod to me and I to them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin