Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.