Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Men Quotes

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.

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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

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We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite 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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We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

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We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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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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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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