Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Fate." The Conduct of Life, Ticknor and Fields, 1860, p. 6.
To most inventors, scientists, and technologists, nature is a destructive force and part of their job is to insulate man from nature.
Without interference “nature” kills all life forms. Over 99 percent of all the species that ever lived are extinct—wiped out by nature and natural events. Man has extended his lifespan by controlling or ameliorating the effects of nature. Man may destroy his own species in the end by undesirable changes in environment, but if left only to nature, man’s extinction is virtually certain.
Legendary pro football coach Vince Lombardi was a strict disciplinarian.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
