"Famous" Quotations from Emerson's Nature

Introduction / p. 656

"Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put."

Chapter I / p. 657

"I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."

Chapter IV / p. 663

"Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence."

Chapter IV / p. 665

"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."

Chapter VII / p. 667

"Therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.  As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God."