Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson