The divinest things--religion,
love, truth, beauty, justice--
seem to lose their meaning and
value when we sink into
lassitude and indifference . . .
It is a signal that we should quit
meditation and books and go out
into the open air,
into the presence of nature, into the
company of flocks
and children, where we
may drink new health and vigor
from the clear and
full-flowing fountains of life,
afar from the arid wastes
of theory and speculation;
where we may learn again that
it is not by intellectual questionings,
but by believing,
hoping,
loving
and doing
that man finds joy and peace.”

--John Lancaster Spaulding