"Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.”
“We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.”
“Live in the sunshine.”
More on Nature
“The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.”
“We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had we not ourselves, by the nature of our own mind, originally set them there.”
“A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.”
More on Beauty
“Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.”
“Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.”
“You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.”