Nature quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Nature category:

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"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light."
"A man is related to all nature."
"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ."
"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."
"Adopt the pace of nature."
"Nature hates calculators."
"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!"