in Thoreau’s Journal:

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. If a shower drives us for shelter to the maple grove or the trailing branches of the pine, yet in their recesses with microscopic eye we discover some new wonder in the bark, or the leaves, or the fungi at our feet.  We are interested by some new resource of insect economy, or, the chickadee is more than usually familiar.

We can study Nature’s nooks and corners then.