## Metadata - Author: [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] - Full Title: Nature - Category: #books ## Highlights - TO go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. ([Location 43](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004TQ46CE&location=43)) - The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. ([Location 48](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004TQ46CE&location=48)) - The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. ([Location 58](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004TQ46CE&location=58)) - Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result. All the parts incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man. The wind sows the seed; the sun evaporates the sea; the wind blows the vapor to the field; the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this; the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man. ([Location 89](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004TQ46CE&location=89))