Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

A man is related to all nature.

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

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

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.

Each moment of the year has its own beauty.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

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

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

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

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

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