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?
There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.
Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.
But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
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