“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. Music” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“But if a man be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
