Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end int…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.73, North Atlantic Books
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