 In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There...  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplited into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing.... | |
 | American Academy of Medicine - 1907 - 550 pages
...of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...(leaving me my eyes) which nature cannot repair." Kingsley, in the preface to his little work says, "I have tried rather to teach the method of geology... | |
 | 1911 - 860 pages
...God a decorum and a sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith. . . . The greatest delight which the fields and the woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult... | |
 | Ralph Birdsall - 1912 - 246 pages
...taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? — S. MATTHEW vi, 27. "!N THE WOODS," says Emerson, "we return to reason and faith. There I feel that...can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity, * * * \vhich nature cannot repair." One has something of this feeling in reading again the Sermon on... | |
 | Arthur Heming - 1921 - 374 pages
...homage toward the Almighty; for, as Emerson says: "In the woods we return to reason and faith. Then I feel that nothing can befall me in life — no disgrace,...air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egoism vanishes. ... I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty." So, to make my life-dream... | |
 | United States. Forest Service. California Region - 1924 - 356 pages
...a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he f='."j tire of them in a thousand years* In the woods we return to reason and faith,— iinerson. • • NATIONAL FOREST FIRE SUMMARY (To August 20, 1924) Total number of fires - 1,168 Total... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not hew he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the /woods,...(leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Stan OI1 the bare ground, — my VipnH Knt.ViPfl hy the hlJt,h7^Tr , uplifted into infinite space,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1957 - 466 pages
...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith." At another time Emerson said : and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling... | |
 | United States. President (1963-1969 : Johnson) - 1965 - 952 pages
...of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and faith." Emerson would have been cheered and comforted by the establishment of a National Wilderness Preservation... | |
 | William Lad Sessions - 1994 - 324 pages
...least to some extent; it is an ongoing trait. loi . This sentiment finds wide and various expression. "In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There...(leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair" (Emerson, 1957, 24). "Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her", such that nothing shall "disturb/... | |
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