Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Nature hates calculators.