Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

A lot of the flowers I like are weeds. Oh, and dandelions, but they're a weed, too.

I like weeds and hardy plants.

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

Believe me, nothing is trivial.

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy them in seasons before But have thought of them merely as seeds; But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time, "You purchased a miracle here for a dime."

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.