Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson