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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Book Overview: 

“Nature” is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Recent advances in zoology, botany, and geology confirmed Emerson’s intuitions about the intricate relationships of nature at large.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .stars of the dead calices of flowers, and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.

The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer. To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. The heavens change every moment, and reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath. The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week. The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides, which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours, will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer. The tribes of birds and insects, li. . . Read More

Community Reviews

beautiful. "The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred expression, when the mind is open to their influence."

Passages like this are great:

"To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he

read a few essays in this collection for class (definitely did not read the whole book...). emerson is hella wordy but i did like his emphasis on renewing your connection to nature as well as his critique on scholars merely reading and rehashing great authors, rather than fully reflecting and making

Who doesn't love Emerson? Raise your hand so that I can stop being your friend.

I can't help but start this review with a truism: It's near impossible to read American books or process American popular culture or politics without somehow grappling with the legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson. We know better than ever that no claim to understand any era can be made without reference t

I can't resist Emerson. I enjoyed Nature much less than "Self Reliance" but I still found myself admiring his prose. For a writer who said "I hate quotations," he sure supplies a plethora of pithy lines.

My main problem with Nature was how anthropocentric it was. Nature is a powerful force through w

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