"Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
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“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”
“Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.”
“The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.”
More on Nature
“Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea!”
“A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.”
“I don't work from nature, I work like nature.”
More on Transformation
“Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.”
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
“There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.”