Character and Conduct – 2 December – Nature

TO THE body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal, and restores their tone.   The tradesman, the attorney, comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again.   In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

EMERSON

NATURE is loved by what is best in us.

EMERSON

REST is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time.

Lord AVEBURY

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These quotes are from ‘Character and Conduct’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.

Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1905 as a follow up to her volume of Daily Readings for members of the Being and Doing Guild who asked for an additional volume

In her preface Whishaw writes:

‘This collection of noble thoughts expressed by men and women of past and present ages who have endeavoured to leave the world a little better than they found it.’

It is my hope in publishing them here is that readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.