"In Nature, all is useful, all is..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.”

“Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.”

“Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”

“Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.”

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”

“The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.”

“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.”

“To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.”

“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”