The passage is a dialog by Duke Senior in the play 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare. Duke Senior is banished from his kingdom by his brother and he, with his friends, is now in the forest. The author shows the hardships and struggles of life amidst the natural environment. The open forest is less dangerous than the closed courts where human jealousy creates perils. In the forest, the only thing that affects the humans, as the sons of Adam, is weather, i.e. cold, heat and rain, but not the human intrigues. The differences in weather can test human patience since a human can better understand things in adversity. Nature offers melody from trees, lesson of life in the running streams and sacred sermons in stones and this world is natural, free from vices and intrigues of the courtly life.
