Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Reginald Heber (1783–1826) English clergyman
Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.
“Let others laugh flower-burial to see:
Another year who will be burying me?”
Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber
Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760)
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet
Song
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), The Flower of Old Japan
“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate…
Snow… unceasing snow”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered.”
Julian Huxley (1887–1975) English biologist, philosopher, author
The New Divinity (1964)
Context: This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Desolation Row
