Ralph Waldo Emerson Bud Quotations

The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.