Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature (1836)

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Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson