Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Hills

• The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.37, 谷月社

• Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Thinking, Agriculture

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.97

• The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunshine, Fire, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.699, Modern Library

• Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
  Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,
  Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
  Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
  And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.
  The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet
  Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit
  Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Garden, Rivers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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