Quotes about Harmony
Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature is in our own eye...Love is as much its demand, as perception. Indeed neither can be perfect without the other.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson