"It is as bad to study stars and clouds as flowers and stones. I must let my senses wander as my thoughts, my eyes see without looking. Carlyle said that how to observe is to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe... Be not preoccupied with looking. Go not to the object; let it come to you." -- Henry David Thoreau
When you go into Nature, you let the field of your heart lead, moving to those things that for some reason attract you. You may feel one day the need to walk in mountains, or when walking in a forest be drawn to a particular stand of trees. To notice these things you must, as Thoreau commented, let yourself "see with the unworn sides of your eye." It is in peripheral vision that these things are seen, in peripheral thoughts that their signals come. Pointed vision is the domain of the linear mind.
