Gardening Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The flowers talk when the wind blows over them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth laughs in flowers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers are the earth laughing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth laughs in flowers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to be a planter of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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