"Nature is upheld by antagonism...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is upheld by antagonism.
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“The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.”
“There is always safety in valor.”
“For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.”
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“We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.”
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
“The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.”