Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible"
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"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same"
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"She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep."
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"It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form."
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
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"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
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"The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision."
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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"
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
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"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
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"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."
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"Every natural action is graceful."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
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"The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and Selected Essays
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"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
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"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
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"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and Selected Essays
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"It is not the length of life, but the depth."
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"To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars."
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature and Selected Essays
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