Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature Quotes
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
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.
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...
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 health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough
The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.