I’ve always been attracted to this phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Perhaps I have never understood it, or perhaps it is simply interpretable in many ways.
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San Bernardo, Civo – Costiera dei Cech – Valtellina
When I read the long essay of Emerson “Nature”I was struck by his interpretation of nature halfway between the mystic and the religious.
Here are some phrases that most attracted me.
![Alpe Visogno, Costiera dei Cech - Valtellina](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Alpe-Visogno-Costiera-dei-Cech-Valtellina.jpeg)
Alpe Visogno, Costiera dei Cech – Valtellina
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches.
![Bernina Pass - Valtellina. Nature never wears a mean appearance](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Bernina-Pass-Valtellina.-Nature-never-wears-a-mean-appearance.jpeg)
Lago Bianco, Bernina Pass, Valtellina
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.
![Cima Rosetta Valgerola - Valtellina](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Cima-Rosetta-Valgerola-Valtellina.jpeg)
Cima Rosetta in Valgerola, Valtellina
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
![3 Cornini Costiera dei Cech](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/3-Cornini-Costiera-dei-Cech.jpg)
Tre Cornini, Costiera dei Cech – Valtellina
Nature says, — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.
![Costiera dei Cech in winter](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Costiera-dei-Cech-in-winter.jpeg)
Costiera dei Cech in winter
A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of Beauty.
![Valle di Predarossa - Valtellina](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Valle-di-Predarossa-Valtellina.jpeg)
Valle di Preda Rossa, Valtellina
I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share.
![San Bernardo di Civo](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/San-Bernardo-di-Civo.jpeg)
San Bernardo di Civo, Costiera dei Cech – Valtellina
Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique. A leaf, a sun-beam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all, — that perfectness and harmony, is beauty.
![Colmen Costiera dei Cech](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Colmen-Costiera-dei-Cech.jpg)
Colmen, Costiera dei Cech – Valtellina
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
![Como Lake. Landscapes belong to the people who look at them](https://www.bb-costieradeicech.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Como-Lake.-Landscapes-belong-to-the-people-who-look-at-them.jpg)
Piona Lake, Legnone – Valtellina
Landscapes belong to the people who look at them.
Sere