--- title: "4 Greece Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson" description: "4 Greece quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Plus more from Ralph Waldo Emerson and more Greece sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/326/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_clans_o-when-i-am-safe-in-my-sylvan-home-i-moc_132674.png" --- > [O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/o-when-i-am-safe-in-my-sylvan-home-i-mock-at-the-pride-of-greece-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/326/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_clans_o-when-i-am-safe-in-my-sylvan-home-i-moc_132674.png) > [A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-is-the-whole-encyclopedia-of-facts-the-creation-of-a-thousand/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/285/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_acorns_a-man-is-the-whole-encyclopedia-of-facts_834340.png) > [In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-nature-all-is-useful-all-is-beautiful-it-is-therefore-beautiful/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_alive_in-nature-all-is-useful-all-is-beautiful_1164926.jpg) > [I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-believe-in-eternity-i-can-find-greece-palestine-italy-spain-and-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/128/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_believe_i-believe-in-eternity-i-can-find-greece_2587467.png) ## Other authors on Greece - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-papandreou-37900.jpg) George Papandreou 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/george-papandreou/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-homer-42227.jpg) Homer 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/homer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/barack-obama/) - [Alexis Tsipras 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/alexis-tsipras/) - [Yorgos Lanthimos 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/yorgos-lanthimos/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jeanclaude-juncker-48134.jpg) Jean-Claude Juncker 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/jean-claude-juncker/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-lucas-papademos-61709.jpg) Lucas Papademos 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/lucas-papademos/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-antonis-samaras-14312.jpg) Antonis Samaras 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/antonis-samaras/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michael-hudson-67160.jpg) Michael Hudson 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/michael-hudson/) - [Evangelos Venizelos 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/evangelos-venizelos/) ## More by Ralph Waldo Emerson > [The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-history-of-mankind-interests-us-only-as-it-exhibits-a-steady-gain/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-we-will-not-interfere-with-our-thought-but-will-act-entirely-or/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-there-is-any-period-one-would-desire-to-be-born-in-is-it-not-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-speak-but-he-judges-himself-with-his-will-or-against-his/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/consideration-is-the-soil-in-which-wisdom-may-be-expected-to-grow-and/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/there-is-then-creative-reading-as-well-as-creative-writing-when-the/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The order of things consents to virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-order-of-things-consents-to-virtue/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Life only avails, not the having lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/life-only-avails-not-the-having-lived/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/another-success-is-the-post-office-with-its-educating-energy/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-child-reminds-us-that-playtime-is-an-essential-part-of-our-daily/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-man-can-be-criticised-but-by-a-greater-than-he-do-not-then-read/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/coal-lay-in-ledges-under-the-ground-since-the-flood-until-a-laborer/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-am-therefore-i-had-nothing-better-to-do-than-to-think/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/in-a-library-we-are-surrounded-by-many-hundreds-of-dear-friends-but/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) > [The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-compensations-of-calamity-are-made-apparent-to-the-understanding/) [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/greece/ralph-waldo-emerson/#itemlist", "name": "4 Greece Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/o-when-i-am-safe-in-my-sylvan-home-i-mock-at-the-pride-of-greece-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/326/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_clans_o-when-i-am-safe-in-my-sylvan-home-i-moc_132674.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/326/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_clans_o-when-i-am-safe-in-my-sylvan-home-i-moc_132674.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/326/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_clans_o-when-i-am-safe-in-my-sylvan-home-i-moc_132674.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath…” — Ralph Waldo Emerson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. 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