But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMarriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMan is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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 Emerson