To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew!… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
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
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
