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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my

As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation. Standing on the bare ground with my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into the infinite space, I become happy in my universal relations. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign & accidental. I am the heir of uncontained beauty and power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sweet, Nature, Eye

I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Morning, Sunday

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Nature, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Saint, Odd

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Respect, Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.145, U of Nebraska Press

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Heart, Burden
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003). “Nature and Other Writings”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Faithful, Faithfulness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.69, The Floating Press

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Men, Raw Materials
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts; or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Clouds, Expression

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

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

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Nature, Broken
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.379

Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Creativity, Simple
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.59

The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus, Nature, Humility
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1844). “Nature: An Essay ; And, Lectures on the Times”, p.53

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Flower, Sky

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Garden, Essentials
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.321

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Heart, 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.107, Harvard University Press

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Rain, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.281, Harvard University Press

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

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

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Nature, Masters
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1900*). “Essays”

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Eye, Identity

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Nature, Simplicity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.84, Courier Corporation

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Pages
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Home, Rome
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.197, Everyman's Library

But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Sunset, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.452, Modern Library

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