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Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Used, Symbols
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.74, Coyote Canyon Press

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Luxury, Parent

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Nature, Swag
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Ocean, Men
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.68, Harvard University Press

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother, Spiritual, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Nature, Morning
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.59, Рипол Классик

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Two
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.89, Penguin

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Travel, White
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Sweet, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2657, Delphi Classics

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Morning, Wrinkles
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Morning, Light
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow. What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages. Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weed, Nature, Wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Breasts
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

Nature tells every secret once.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Secret
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Ministry, Apparitions
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the desert and the lake. It was her stern necessity : all things Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower, Song, picture, form, space, thought, and character Deceive us, seeming to be many things, And are but one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song, Nature, Wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.159, The Floating Press

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Book, Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Nature, Spring
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1084, Delphi Classics

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Taken, Knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1588, Delphi Classics

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Teaching, Science
Nature Discipline (p. 38)

Nature is saturated with Deity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Deities, Saturated
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.35, Harvard University Press

Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, White, Rags
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Essentials
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.144, Modern Library

Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Men, Dust
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.256, Penguin

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Song, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.147, University of Georgia Press

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