Nature, like a cautious testator, fires up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation, but has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.


The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Volume 10), Society and Solitude, Farming (p. 143)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Nature, like a cautious testator, fires up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation, but has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard ...

Nature, like a cautious testator, fires up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation, but has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard ...

Nature, like a cautious testator, fires up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation, but has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard ...

Nature, like a cautious testator, fires up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation, but has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard ...