Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. — 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
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. — 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
“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never… — 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
Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that… — 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
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