The earth laughs in flowers...
But what are they laughing about?
We think we own the earth, but the earth knows
It is she who owns and rules us. LOL!
She endures long after we're gone.
Why Emerson says the Earth Laughs in Flowers
The Earth Song
‘Mine and
yours;
Mine, not
yours.
Earth
endures;
Stars
abide—
Shine down
in the old sea;
Old are the
shores;
But where
are old men?
I who have
seen much,
Such have I
never seen.
‘They
called me theirs,
Who so controlled
me;
Yet every
one
Wished to
stay, and is gone,
How am I
theirs,
If they
cannot hold me,
But I hold
them?’
Why the Earth Laughs in Flowers
“I have now given you a summary account of the sovereigns of the earth.—These and other kings who with perishable frames have possessed this ever-during world, and who, blinded with deceptive notions of individual occupation, have indulged the feeling that suggests ‘This earth is mine,—it is my son’s,—it belongs to my dynasty,’—have all passed away.
So, many who reigned before them, many who succeeded them, and many who are yet to come, have ceased or will cease to be.
Earth laughs, as if smiling with autumnal flowers to behold her kings unable to effect the subjugation of themselves."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get Busy Living~and Laugh with the Flowers
'Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild
air.' Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Write it on your heart that
every day is the best day in the year.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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