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Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that an appreciation of its vast natural resources would become the foundation of American culture. His assertion that human thought and actions proceed from nature, was a radical departure from the traditional European emphasis on domesticating nature to suit... read more
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“...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also.”
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Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf.
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all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle—between man and nature.
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But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty,
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In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
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Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
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“As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions,”
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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature.
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 814.3
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( E ) › Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › 19th Century
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Essays
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
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