Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Food

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

• For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

• The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Gratitude, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.403, Harvard University Press

• God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Godly, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Men, Vegetables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

• There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Perfect, Cooking

• Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Food, Eating Good

  1844 Essays: Second Series,'Nature'.

• I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Reason, Deny

  1850 Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

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