Lev Tolstoy

The higher the worldly happiness, which people have reached, the less they see the light of the sun, the fields and forests, wild animals ...

The higher the worldly happiness, which people have reached, the less they see the light of the sun, the fields and forests, wild animals and pets. Many of them live up to an old age, times or two in life seeing sunrise and morning. But they have never seen views of fields and the woods differently, than from a carriage or from the car and not only without having seeded and without having put something, without having raised and without having brought up a cow, a horse, chicken, but without knowing even how will animals born, grow and live. These people see only fabrics, stones, the tree fixed by human work. And that not by the light of the sun but at artificial light; they only hear sounds of cars, crews, guns, musical instruments; they smell alcohol perfume and a tobacco smoke; they eat because of weakness of the stomachs mostly stale and smelly. Moving from place to place don't rescue them from this deprivation…
And in the village and abroad where they leave, they have same stones and a tree under feet, the same curtains hiding from them light of the sun; the same footmen, drivers, janitors who aren't allowing them to communicate with the earth, plants and animals. Wherever they were, they are deprived as prisoners of this condition of happiness. As prisoners are cheered with the grass which has grown in a prison-yard, a spider, a mouse and these people are sometimes cheered with sick houseplants, a parrot, a doggie, the monkey which are raised after all and not they feed.


L.N. Tolstoy


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