Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Nature - Page 3

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time, Nature, Heart

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1881). “Representative men. Society and solitude”

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Science, Lines

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.254, Harvard University Press

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Selfish, Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Nature, Order

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Nature, Ambition

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Break

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.38, Courier Corporation

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother, Nature, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1893). “Natural History of Intellect: And Other Papers”

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Rays, Atoms

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Mind, Body

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.13, Harvard University Press

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wise, Gratitude, Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Running, Nature, Real

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Method

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Nature, Latin

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.161, Harvard University Press

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Way, Environment

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

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 primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Garden, Division Of Labor

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.393, Penguin

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Teaching, Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.421, Penguin

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Power, Doe

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.10, Penguin

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom, Nature, Book

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.385, Penguin

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Lying, Sleep

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Character, Hair

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.118, Courier Corporation

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religious, Nature, Religion

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Men, Broken

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.113, Penguin

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Eggs, Clouds

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.106, Penguin

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Nature, Glory

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weed, Nature, Prayer

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.276, Library of America

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