"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.”

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

“A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.”

“It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.”

“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”

“When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.”

“When it is darkest, we can see the stars.”

“The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.”

“Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.”