Read this quotation from chapter i of nature. to speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. which sentence from nature best supports emerson’s claim? i am glad to the brink of fear. nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. the sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. in the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child.