Quotes from Nature — Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803–1882 United States
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12 quotes
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!
Nature (1836)
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.
Nature (1836)
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Nature (1836)
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
Nature (1836)
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Nature (1836)
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Nature (1836)
We are, like Nebuchadnezzar, dethroned, bereft of reason, and eating grass like an ox.
Nature (1836)
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing.
Nature (1836)
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
Nature (1836)
Go out of the house to see the moon, and 'tis mere tinsel: it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
Nature (1836)
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food.
Nature (1836)
Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.
Nature (1836)