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Flower Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson looks at roses under a window and says they exist only now, without reference to the past. He compares weeds to undiscovered virtues and reminds us that few people truly see the flowers in a meadow. He also notes that spring can live in the mind.

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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

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The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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Earth laughs in flowers.

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Flowers are the earth laughing.

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“The frolic architecture of the snow.”

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I see my trees repair their boughs.

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Only to youth will spring be spring.

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

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The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

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Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight”

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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg…

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There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

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The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair…

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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white…

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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which…

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Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there…

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a…

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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with…

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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.…

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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire…

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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the…

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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds…

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Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never…

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Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow…

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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when…

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To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and…

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Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited…

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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