We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving… — 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
As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by… — 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
I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all… — 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
