The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonScience is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson