"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Nature Tags: nature More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams." "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." More In Nature "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly."― R. Buckminster Fuller "The poetry of the earth is never dead."― John Keats "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."― David Herbert Lawrence