“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.”
Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry
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Famous Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: Essays and Lectures
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”
“In the woods we return to reason and faith.”
Source: Emerson: Selected Essays
Source: Essays and Lectures
“He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.”
Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures
“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters
“Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II
“Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“A man should carry nature in his head.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays
“We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.”
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere”
“Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.”
Source: The Portable Emerson
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketches
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Source: Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
Source: Selected Writings
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
Source: Nature, Addresses and Lectures
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
Source: Essays
“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843
“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures
“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.”
Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
Source: Essays
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?”
Source: The Annotated Emerson