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Nature Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

220 Nature quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

• One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
• The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we…
• A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines…
• The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his…
• There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel…
• A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast.…
• Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every…
• Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
• He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
• When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
• Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
• I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent…
• For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.
• Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is…
• History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
• A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
• A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
• Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
• Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
• In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.