Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes, ) which nature cannot repair.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is saturated with deity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson