Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Wilderness
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...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.
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In the woods we return to reason and faith.
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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
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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.
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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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