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"To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius."

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About Ameen Rihani

Ameen Rihani was a Lebanese-American writer, intellectual, and political thinker. He wrote in both Arabic and English and is associated with early Arab-American literary history.

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