Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Selfish Quotes

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Lonely Quotes , Nature Quotes

The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

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In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Art is the child of Nature.

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I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

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The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Dark Quotes

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

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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.

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The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

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The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.

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Nature doesn't make long speeches.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

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