Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me

The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough