Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.106, Penguin
topic: Nature, Eggs, Clouds, Organized Life