Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Environment

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Flower, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

• The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Recovery

• Lose yourself in nature and find peace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Environment, Finding Peace

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Wind, Weather

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.70, Harvard University Press

• Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Way, Environment

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2268, Delphi Classics

• When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Saving The Earth, Mother Earth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

• Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Nature

• Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tree, Environment, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.73, Harvard University Press

• Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Science, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.7

• Coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Energy, Climate, Coal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.362

• Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, White Man, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.458, Harvard University Press

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