Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Environment
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Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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Lose yourself in nature and find peace
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Coal is a portable climate.
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
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Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.
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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.
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Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.
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