Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of death. Yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Nature abhors annihilation.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.

Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness.

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.