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?
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology
He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing towards the faults and errors of fallen man, so that God may be forbearing towards your own.
Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
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