Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th-century American essayist, lecturer, and poet, the leading figure of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. This page collects quotes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
Fortune of the Republic (1878) -
“The Method of Nature (1841), p. 25”
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. -
“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”
Poems(1847) | Wood-notes , st. 3 -
“A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs, The world uncertain comes and goes; The lover rooted stays.”
May-Day and Other Pieces(1867) | Friendship -
“God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.”
Society and Solitude(1870) | Society and Solitude -
“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”
Society and Solitude(1870) | Art -
“A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.”
Society and Solitude(1870) | Art -
“I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.”
Society and Solitude(1870) | Books -
“Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.”
Pearls of Thought(1881) | p. 223