"Nature" Quotes
Emerson's "Nature" explores the spiritual connection between humanity and the natural world.
philosophy | 160 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Nature is the incarnation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas.
The sun shines today also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime.
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
Nature is not fixed but fluid. Spirit alters, moulds, makes it.




