"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn
Earth laughs in flowers.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient...
"When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality...
"The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.
"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
"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 impert...
"The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
"Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like man...
"There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.
"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 tranq...
"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 ci...
"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 ...
"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 ...
"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...