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“Every thing, even the commonest, was seen in new light and was looked at with new interest as if never seen before.”
- Source
- Travels in Alaska
- Date
- 1915
Meaning of “Every thing, even the commonest, was seen in…”
Attention changes the value of familiar things; novelty can come not from a new object but from seeing an ordinary one with renewed interest.
Where does it come from?
Travels in Alaska, same Stickeen excursion; the sentence follows Muir’s description of the world seeming newly born.
