Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe know truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson