Autobiography: Truth And Fiction Relating to My Life
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In the remotest depth of the forest Isought out a solemn spot, where the oldest oaks and beeches formed alarge, noble, shaded space. The ground was somewhat sloping, and madethe worth of the old trunks only the more perceptible. Round this opencircle closed the densest thickets, from which the mossy rocks mightilyand venerably peered forth, and made a rapid fall for a copious brook. Scarcely had I dragged hither my friend, who would rather have been inthe open country by the stream, among men, ...when he playfully assured methat I showed myself a true German. He related to me circumstantially, out of Tacitus, how our ancestors found pleasure in the feelings whichNature so provides for us, in such solitudes, with her inartificialarchitecture. He had not been long discoursing of this, when Iexclaimed, "Oh! why did not this precious spot lie in a deeperwilderness! why may we not train a hedge around it, to hallow andseparate from the world both it and ourselves! Surely there is no morebeautiful adoration of the Deity than that which needs no image, butwhich springs up in our bosom merely from the intercourse with nature!"What I then felt is still present to my mind: what I said I know not howto recall.
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