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Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.117, Harvard University Press

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.73, Harvard University Press

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.13

A man should carry nature in his head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.63, University of Georgia Press

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

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.10, Harvard University Press

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches”

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.17, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.179, Harvard University Press

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.415