When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWho are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.
Ralph Waldo Emerson