Quotes about Connection
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
All mankind love a lover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will meet as though we met not and part as though we parted not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I become the transparent eyeball...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For it is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceed obviously from the same source... Here is the fountain of action and of thought... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is as much its demand as perception. Indeed, neither can be perfect without the other.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most
— Ralph Waldo Emerson