Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.


Emerson's essays and poems (ed. 1926)


When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought...

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought...

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought...

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought...