the spirit of infancy

"The lover of nature is he who's inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to eachother; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food." 

i think this is a fabulous sentence. he states nearly the beginning of his passage about nature that the majority of men don't really see the sun - they see it only in a superficial way. where the sun is only to illuminate their ways. but one who truly loves nature is someone whos eyes are illuminated, but also their heart. that through their sorrows and all their deepest pains (as he says later), one can find peace through nature - for it is the most pure form of life. it is life, it holds life together, nature gives birth to life, it continues the cycle of creation and life. therefore, we, as humans, are connected to the earth. we are a part of it - we are connected from the soul. it fills us up like food. it goes beyond our physical needs, for no matter what this world does to us, there was a point in the beginning that still exists when all there was was life, peace, and nature - that obviously being our infancy. but blessed is the man who can contain that spirit that he holds when he is an infant - one that is free and revived by the mere life around him - the spirit of nature that created him - and carry it onward to manhood. for he is not living among the superficiality of the world, he is not turned upside down and deeply affect by the superficial things in the world, even sorrows and pain, for he has the spirit of the world. of nature - the thing that binds all life together - that allowed him to be created. and that force is much larger than anything else in the world.

sorry if this is really confusing! i was just rambling.