God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the interconnectedness of all natural processes, suggesting that both transformation and growth are valued equally.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the beauty and importance of transformation in nature. He suggests that just as God created both yeast and dough, indicating a process of change and growth through fermentation, so too does He cherish the natural process of growth represented by vegetation. This underscores the idea that both creation and transformation are essential and worthy of appreciation in the divine scheme of existence.
In practice
In a discussion about the processes of nature during a biology class.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
The IP standards advanced countries favour typically are designed not to maximise innovation and scientific progress, but to maximise the profits of big pharmaceutical companies and others able to sway trade negotiations.
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
That which costs little is less valued.
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