“Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.”
“He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]”
“The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“Every Hero Becomes a Bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)”
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson.”