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title: "25 Land Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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> [The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-god-who-made-new-hampshire-taunted-the-lofty-land-with-little-men/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/for-what-avail-the-plough-or-sail-or-land-or-life-if-freedom-fail/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-writer-is-an-explorer-every-step-is-an-advance-into-a-new-land/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [If a man owns land, the land owns him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/if-a-man-owns-land-the-land-owns-him/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/how-much-better-when-the-whole-land-is-a-garden-and-the-people-have/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-first-farmer-was-the-first-man-and-all-historic-nobility-rests-on/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-land-is-the-appointed-remedy-for-whatever-is-false-and-fantastic-2/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-river-knows-the-way-to-the-sea-without-a-pilot-it-runs-and-falls/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/cities-of-mortals-woe-begone-fantastic-care-derides-but-in-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/railroad-iron-is-a-magician-s-rod-in-its-power-to-evoke-the-sleeping/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-grant-no-dukedoms-to-the-few-we-hold-like-rights-and-shall-equal/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-cities-drain-the-country-of-the-best-part-of-its-population-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/any-relation-to-the-land-the-habit-of-tilling-it-or-mining-it-or-even/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/shall-we-then-judge-a-country-by-the-majority-or-by-the-minority-by/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-sea-washing-the-equator-and-the-poles-offers-its-perilous-aid-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/our-day-of-dependence-our-long-apprenticeship-to-the-learning-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-greater-speed-and-success-that-distinguish-the-planting-of-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-land-is-the-appointed-remedy-for-whatever-is-false-and-fantastic/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-rage-for-road-building-is-beneficent-for-america-where-vast/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-man-cannot-free-himself-by-any-self-denying-ordinances-neither-by/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that…](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/)

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> [Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/without-looking-then-to-those-extraordinary-social-influences-which/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/every-spirit-builds-itself-a-house-and-beyond-its-house-a-world-and/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-soul-is-no-traveller-the-wise-man-stays-at-home-and-when-his/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/the-state-of-society-is-one-in-which-the-members-have-suffered/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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## Other authors on Land

## 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/)

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                        "text": "Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.",
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