While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of …

C. S. Lewis
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While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1971). The Four Loves, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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