It is not enough to feel attachment to Nature. The true lover must also experience the sublime, the airy abstraction, the spirit of Nature, wrote William Hazlitt:
In our love of Nature there is all the force of individual attachment combined with the most airy abstraction. It is this circumstance which gives that refinement, expansion, and wild interest to feelings of this sort, when strongly excited, which every one must have experienced who is a true lover of Nature. (Quoted from The Life of the Creative Spirit, p. 173.)
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