The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Behold the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, Fresh as the trickling rainbow… — 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
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
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
