17 Emerson Quotes for You to Enjoy

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite. John Muir

Faith Best Men First Half Met Mountains Trees Enough Everybody Sierra Sayings One Half Weakened Would Admire Emerson Had No-One He Noble Reach Until Him Calling Read Sure Within Felt Came His Nor Years Yosemite Essays Them Warm Found Ever Interpret

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often. John Burroughs

History People Important Too Our Our People Moral Religious Directed Emerson Attention Development Him Often Literary Cannot Figure

Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old. John Burroughs

Life Age Youth Sunshine Old Heights Find Spirit Something Emerson Voice Prophet He Spokesman Idealistic Him Does Leave His Gets Formative Which Ever Grows Early Early Life

My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson. Michael Pollan

Yes, there were piano bands and great rock pianists, from Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard to Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and Elton John. But something about the electric guitar speaks of more than music - it epitomizes and gives voice to the rebellion, power, and sexuality of rock. Daniel Levitin

Music Great Rebellion Guitar Power Elton Elton John Sexuality John About Something Emerson More Voice Gives Piano Rock Were Lee Yes Than Bands Little Richard Electric Little Richard Rick Electric Guitar Speaks Jerry Lewis

Every time the mainstream media talk about progressive rock, they wheel out a clip of Rick Wakeman in a cape. For me, it's one of the most ambitious forms of music. The problem is that when it doesn't work, you end up with Emerson, Lake and Palmer doing symphonies with 60-piece orchestras and revolving pianos, which I think is ridiculous as well. Steven Wilson

Work Music Time Me You Problem Every Think Every Time Symphonies Progressive Out About Emerson Pianos Mainstream Mainstream Media Most Talk Well Rock Doing Clip End Up Ambitious Revolving Wheel Orchestra Lake Which Forms Cape Rick Ridiculous Media Palmer

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. Marilynne Robinson

Love Great Heroes Think Others Way Above Emerson American Whitman

When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by listening to jazz in the late 1940s and then vocal harmony groups like the Four Freshmen, the Modernaires and the Hi-Lo's. I loved Stan Kenton's big band - with those dark chords and musicians who could swing cool with individual sounds. Frankie Valli

Musicians Dark Listening Big Band Jazz Late Harmony Kid Those Vocal Emerson Could Individual Like Big Band Sounds Freshmen Covers Listen Loved Then Stan Used Who Cool Radio Chords Groups Swing Four Started Night

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. Pico Iyer

Wisdom Challenges Dark Try Made Every Books Way Those Out About Emerson Emily Emily Dickinson Inspirations Through Head Know Souls Questions Get Six Unfortunate Them Might Sentences Who Alas

I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I didn't win, but Felicity won, and when you come to the set next time, you can give her a big congratulations. Teri Hatcher

When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Washington High, the campus at San Francisco State, and even back to Emerson Elementary school and Roosevelt Junior High. I was happy to do it, to go back and see if all the same teachers were there. Johnny Mathis

Me Happy School Important State Back Francisco Those High See Emerson Shared Got Go George Were George Washington Campus Junior Junior High Same Experiences San San Francisco Roosevelt Teachers Even Washington Elementary Elementary School Chance

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God. Story Musgrave

I was born in 1937, in Yakima, Washington, the oldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. My sister Jenepher was born in 1939 and my brother Peter in 1940. My parents had moved to Yakima from Seattle to open a small restaurant, The Lucas Ice Creamery. Robert Lucas, Jr.

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. Howard Mumford Jones