The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson