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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Nature

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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, Harvard University Press

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.30, Harvard University Press

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.299, University of Georgia Press

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.128, Harvard University Press

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.137, Courier Corporation

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press

Nature hates calculators.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.99, Coyote Canyon Press

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.208, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1003, Library of America

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.4

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.331, Modern Library

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.11, Harvard University Press

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.136, Courier Corporation

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.323

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.27, Harvard University Press