Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Luxury Quotes

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

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To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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What will the solemn Hemlock- What will the Oak tree say?

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Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

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Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

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Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

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...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

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The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

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He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

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Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

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