"Every rational creature has all nature for..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”

“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.”

“Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.”

“Every man is eloquent once in his life.”

“With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.”

“But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.”

“Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.”

“The painter strives and competes with nature.”

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”