"Nature and books belong to the eyes..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.”
More on Nature
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.”
“A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man.”
More on Books
“Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading”
“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.”
“In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.”