from "The Tables Turned" by William Wordsworth:Come forth into the light of things,Let Nature be your teacher.She has a world of ready wealth,Our minds and hearts to bless—Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,Truth breathed by cheerfulness.One impulse from a vernal woodMay teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good,Than all the sages can.Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;Our meddling intellectMis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:—We murder to dissect.
Related Rudolf Steiner lecture: "The Alchemy of the Human Soul"
http://martyrion.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-alchemy-of-human-soul.html