the beauty of green plants
and other things of this kind
Spinoza
“The wise. . . refresh and restore themselves in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theatre, and other things of this kind.” [1]
[1] Spinoza, B. (1677) Ethics Part 4, Proposition 45 (“Hate can never be good”) Corollary 2, Scholium
Please find three references which in one way or another are very much related to our green and watery world.
http://www.rawgorilla.org
http://fearnomore.visionworld-2/not-merely-that
http://www.fnmzoo.org/wisdom-teaching/a-contemplative-state-of-exaltation
One of my favorites. Turnbull thought a well-kept garden could reform the mind. Shaftesbury preferred wild nature.