Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature Quotations [Page 2]

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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.

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

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

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

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

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

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

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

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

Nature hates calculators.

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.

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

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

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.