in Thoreau’s Journal:

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however, familiar, from a point a hair’s breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance. Only what we have touched and worn is trivial, our scurf, repetition, tradition, conformity.

To percieve freshly, with fresh senses, is to be inspired….The age of miracles is each moment returned; now it is wild apples, now river reflections…