Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Winter

• I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Believe, Winter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.37, Penguin

• Spring still makes spring in the mind
  When sixty years are told:
  Love wakes anew this throbbing heart,
  And we are never old
  Over the winter glaciers
  I see the summer glow
  And through the wind-piled snowdrift
  The warm rosebuds below.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Spring, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The World-Soul”

• Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Autumn, Voice

• The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Snow, Soil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Winter, Night, Tragedy

• Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Nature, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1881). “Representative men. Society and solitude”

• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

• 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

• All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Spring, Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

• The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Education, Winter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1523, Delphi Classics

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