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?
Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.
Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord.
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
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