Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Nature Quotes

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

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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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The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

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How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

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Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.

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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

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The wheels and springs of man are all set to the hypothesis of the permanence of nature. We are not built like a ship to be tossed, but like a house to stand.

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April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

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

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On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

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