Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Nature

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  • Nature hates calculators.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press
  • Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.30, Harvard University Press
  • The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press
  • In the woods we return to reason and faith.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin
  • Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.151, Penguin
  • Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press
  • Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.331, Modern Library
  • 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, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press
  • The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.68, Harvard University Press
  • The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “Nature: An Essay ; And, Lectures on the Times”, p.53
  • The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.276, Library of America
  • 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 (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America
  • If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America
  • 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.

  • At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America
  • One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

  • The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.39, Harvard University Press
  • The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.37, 谷月社
  • 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.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.59, Рипол Классик
  • If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32
  • In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press
  • Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”
  • The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Harvard University Press
  • Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press
  • Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.350
  • Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.118, Courier Corporation
  • By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity : all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.159, The Floating Press
  • Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin
  • Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.91, Courier Corporation
  • 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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    "Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson, University of California Press, (p. 155), March 6, 1995.
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Conspiracy Constitution Contemplation Contentment Cooking Country Courage Courtship Creation Creative Writing Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Cynicism Dancing Darkness Daughters Death Deception Decisions Defeat Democracy Design Desire Destiny Determination Determinism Devil Devotion Diamonds Difficulty Dignity Discipline Diversity Divorce Dogma Dogs Doom Doubt Dreams Drinking Driving Duty Dying Earth Eating Economists Economy Education Effort Elections Electricity Elegance Emancipation Emotions Encouragement Encouraging Enemies Energy Enthusiasm Environment Envy Epic Equality Eternity Ethics Evidence Evil Evolution Exams Excellence Excuses Exercise Expectations Experience Eyes Failing Failure Faith Fame Family Fashion Fate Fathers Fear Feelings Fighting Finding Yourself Fitness Flight Flowers Focus Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Frugality Funeral Funny Future Gardening Gardens Gems Generosity Genius Geography Getting Old Getting Older Ghosts Giving Giving Up Glitter Glory Goals God Gold Good Deeds Good Morning Goodness Gossip Grace Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greece Greek Grief Grieving Growing Up Growth Guns Habits Happiness Hard Times Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Helping Others Heroism Hills History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope Horses Hospitality House Housework Hugs Human Body Human Nature Humanity Humility Hunting Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Idealism Identity Idleness Ignorance Imagination Imitation Immortality Impulse Independence Individualism Individuality Injustice Inner Beauty Innocence Innovation Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Jesus Jesus Christ Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Laughter Law Of Attraction Lawyers Laziness Leadership Learning Leaving Libertarianism Liberty Libraries Life Life And Love Lifetime Listening Literacy Literature Live Life Logic Loneliness Losing Loss Love Love And Friendship Love Life Loyalty Luck Luther Lying Madness Magic Making Money Management Manhood Mankind Manners Marriage Martyrdom Mask Materialism Mathematics Mediocrity Meetings Memories Mental Health Metaphysics Military Mindfulness Mining Miracles Mistakes Mom Money Monument Moon Morality Morning Motherhood Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Mourning Muse Music Mythology Nationalism Nature Neighbors New Beginnings Newton Nurses Obedience Observation Office Old Age Opinions Opium Opportunity Optimism Originality Overcoming Pain Painting Parents Parties Passion Past Patience Patriots Peace Perception Perfection Performing Persecution Perseverance Personality Perspective Persuasion Pessimism Pets Philanthropy Philosophy Photography Physics Piety Planning Plato Pleasure Poetry Police Politicians Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preaching Prejudice Preparation Pride Prisons Privacy Progress Property Prophet Prosperity Prudence Public Speaking Purity Purpose Purpose Of Life Quakers Quality Quitting Rage Rain Rainbows Reading Reading Books Reality Recovery Redemption Reflection Regret Reincarnation Rejection Relationships Religion Repetition Reputation Respect Responsibility Retiring Revelations Revolution Rhetoric Ridicule Rings Risk Romance Romantic Love Running Sacrifice Sadness Safety Sailing Saints Salvation Sanity Satire School Science Security Self Confidence Self Control Self Esteem Self Love Self Reliance Self Respect Self Worth Selfishness Serenity Seven Shame Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Skepticism Skins Slavery Slaves Sleep Sloth Smoking Social Anxiety Social Justice Society Soldiers Solitude Songs Sorrow Soul Sparkle Speed Spirituality Sports Spring Stay Strong Strength Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Sunday Sunrise Sunshine Surrender Sympathy Take Care Talent Taxes Tea Teachers Teaching Teamwork Technology Temperance Temptation Terror Thankful Thankfulness Thanksgiving Theology This Day Time Time And Space Time Management Tobacco Today Trade Tradition Tragedy Train Training Transcendentalism Transformation Travel True Friends True Love Trust Truth Twilight Ugliness Unbelief Understanding Unity Universe Values Victory Violence Virtue Vision Vocation Volunteer Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Well Being Wife Wilderness Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worry Worship Writing Yoga Youth