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Nature Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that nature holds the steady gain of truth and right. He feels that the woods turn every age into a child, giving a sense of perpetual youth. He also says a true walk needs plain clothes, old shoes, curiosity and good humor.

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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

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Nature hates calculators.

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Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

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Nature is saturated with Deity.

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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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Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

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The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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Nature is endeared by the wooded path, but offended where too many tread.

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Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

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Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,…

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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

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“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible”

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Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and…

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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“That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to…

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the…

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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's…

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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that…

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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,…

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations…

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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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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not…

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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no…

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Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like…

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“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so…

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“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided…

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“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports…

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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…

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“The poet discovers that what men value as substances have a higher value as symbols; that Nature is the immense shadow of…

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

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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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