Fossils Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Language is fossil Poetry.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fossils Language Poetry
“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. — Gaston Bachelard 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
One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
