Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Nature - Page 2

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Nature, Mistake, Environmental

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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 it.

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Inspirational, Life, Nature

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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Respect, Nature, Children

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

Standing on the bare ground,--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,--all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.

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Faith, Nature, Mean

Nature, rev. ed., ch. 1 (1849)

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

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Nature, Mean, Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

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Running, Nature, Water

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.37, 谷月社

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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Beauty, Nature, Asylums

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.117, Harvard University Press

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

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Nature, Wealth

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.73, Harvard University Press

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

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Nature, Knowledge, Communicate

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.29

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.

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God, Nature, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.56, Penguin

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 end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

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Life, Time, Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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Nature, Clouds, Fickle

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.13

A man should carry nature in his head.

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Nature, Learning, Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.63, University of Georgia Press

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

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Motivational, Beauty, Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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Nature, Holiday, Nymphs

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Nature

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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Nature, Men, Tongue

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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Nature, Science, Law

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

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Encouragement, Nature, Errors

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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Positive, Nature, Color

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.17, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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Nature, Eye, Circles

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Harvard University Press

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

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Education, Nature, Stars

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.151, Courier Corporation

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

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Nature, Goodness, Good Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.415

All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.

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Change, Nature, Animal

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Рипол Классик