Quotes about Nature
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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; that there is always another dawn risen on midnoon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is a piece of the universe made alive
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is a god in ruins.When men are innocent,life shall be longer and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson