Nature (1850)
"We come to our own, and make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We never can part with it; the mind loves its old home; as water to our thirst, so is the rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water; it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!"
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (1850), in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 2d series, vol. 3 [Boston-New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903–1904], 171)
Contatti
archivio@remosalvadori.it