John Ruskin speaks to the reason for sky watching:
THE SKY is for all; bright as it is, it is not “too bright, nor good, for human nature’s daily food;” it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct, as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. (Quoted from page 42 of The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, by John Ruskin. 1859. New York: Wiley & Halsted.)
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