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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Nature, Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.10, Library of America

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Men, Humanity
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Sadness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.9

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus, Nature, Heaven
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.8, Courier Corporation

The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Nature, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy, Nature, Fishing
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Nature, History
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Ambition, Clubs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.151, Penguin

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Balance, Sides
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.217, Library of America

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Eye, Pride
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.65, Harvard University Press

There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Men, Circles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Looks, Landscape

A man is related to all nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Nature, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.24, 谷月社

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Drinking, Saint
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.91, Courier Corporation

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time, Nature, Wells

Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Nature, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.197, Modern Library

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Selfish, People
'The Conduct of Life' (1860) 'Considerations by the way'

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Kingdoms
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Essays”, p.27

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Individual, Reckless
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, North Atlantic Books

Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Fall, Color

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Given, All Things
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.20, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Book, Taken
"Emerson: The Mind on Fire" by Robert D. Richardson, University of California Press, (p. 155), March 6, 1995.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Buddhist, Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.270

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Beauty, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

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