Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sunit is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as… — 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
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