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Biography - Ralph Waldo Emerson:

American essayist, lecturer and poet.
Born: 1803 - Died: 1882
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.



Translation

Translation

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French
L'amoureux de la nature est celui dont les sens internes et externes sont encore réellement ajustés les uns aux autres et qui a gardé l'esprit d'enfance jusque dans l'âge adulte.

German
Wer die Natur liebt, dessen innere und äußere Sinne stehen noch wahrhaft im Einklang miteinander; er hat sich den Geist der Kindheit bis ins Erwachsenenalter erhalten.




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Quotes for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.











Quotes for: childhood


Quotes

Quotes about childhood:


Wisdom leads us back to childhood.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.





It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.





The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.





We are of our childhood as we are from a country.











Quotes

Quotes for: Sense


All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.





Love is the poetry of the senses.





Your own senses you shall think to the end!





Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.





I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.





Every great philosophy... as a whole says always only: this is the image of all life, and from this learn the meaning of your life.







Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson also said...


Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.





To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.





Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.





Earth laughs in flowers.





Money often costs too much.





The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.












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