Quotes I connect with:

“Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or mourning piece.”

Nature can change with your moods if you're happy nature can show you happy. If
your sad nature can show you what is sad. Everything and nothing exists in nature.
What you look for in nature is what you will find. If your desire to be alone and
be sad in your thoughts, nature can provide that for you. If you are happy and just
got a new job someplace wonderful you can go out into nature and you will see the
light, flowers and happiness in nature as well. He believes that children
appreciate nature more than adults do because they can appreciate the simplicity of
nature.

“I am part or particle of God.”

He said he could only try to figure out who you really are as a person by realizing
you are just a particle of dust in the vast landscape of the world. To live in
harmony inside of yourself you need to live in harmony with nature. I think he is
comparing nature to being a kind of God. He says that nature is nothing but sees
everything, just like God would. In nature he believes you return to a perfect
state of mind using all of your reasoning and faith that God gave you. Nothing
horrible can happen to you in the wilds of nature.

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit”

You may be able to lie to yourself about what's going on in your world but you
can't lie about nature because it sees everything. I believe this goes along the
same line of reasoning as the quote before it. Nature is like a God that sees
everything so don't even bother to live in nature because nature can see right
through your lies.

A few quotes I don't understand:

“but every night, out the envoys of beauty”

Envoy means an author's concluding words. So I am not sure if he is saying that
every day is the end of a book or an end of the story maybe? Or he might be trying
to say that the brilliance of the stars is accessible to everybody whether you're
smart or stupid young or old everybody can see the night sky no matter who you are
or where you live. Everybody gets to see the same stars and every day is a new
beginning or fresh start. The night sky, even though you can see it, you can't get
to it. It is inaccessible. There is something new to discover every day and every
night just by looking around.

“The power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in
harmony of both”.
I feel like he is going against his whole argument that nature is bigger than we
are. I feel like this quote says that we must live in nature but ultimately man has
the power to rule over nature not the other way around. I believe this goes against
everything he said earlier in the same writing. I am trying to look at it from his
point of view maybe he means that by working together man and nature are somehow
stronger than just man or just nature by itself.