Cities Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The city is recruited from the country.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What care though rival cities soar Along the stormy coast, Penn's town, New York, Baltimore, If Boston knew the most!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson