Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

The sun is new each day.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.

I'm happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother.

Hawaii is such a wonderful, healing place for me. I feel so at ease with the natives and love the tranquility of the islands. It is a place to find inner peace and be one with nature.

Here at home, we're in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it's cement or plastic or steel, everything is at an angle. But nature is chaos theory in full play. So having that uniqueness of what nature is gives me a sense of rejuvenation and scale.

For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.