"The wonder is that we can see these……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson has 2,823 quotes on this site.
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part…
— John James Audubon
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and…
— Wendell Berry
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is…
— Hal Borland
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Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I…
— Bill Bradley
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
— A. Whitney Brown
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I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some…
— Nicolas Cage
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The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and…
— James Cameron
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
— Willa Cather
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