On the summit of the precipice and in the deep green woods emotions as palpable and as true have agitated me as if I were surveying them with the blessing of sight. There was an intelligence in the winds of the hills and in the solemn stillness of the buried foliage that could not be misleading. It entered into my heart and I could have wept, not that I did not see, but that I could no portray all that I felt.
James Holman, A Voyage Around the World
James Holman was a 19th century English adventurer with a well developed sense of wonder. He traveled throughout much of the world and wrote about his adventures. He was blind.
