“Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson , book Nature

1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Nature

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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