In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1866)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.