Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun …

C. S. Lewis
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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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