Ralph Waldo Emerson: from "Nature" - Read Flashcards

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  • Again, the title of Emerson’s writings often hint at the main idea; in this piece, he focuses mostly on the beauty and healing power of nature
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read the highlighted passage in Section 7 of “Nature” carefully. Here, Emerson describes the effect that being in nature has on egotistical, self-centered feelings

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“All mean egotism vanishes”

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in section 3 of his writing on Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us that, though farmers can own their farms, they can’t own

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the landscape… the “property in the horizon”

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in section 8 of his writing on “Nature”, Ralph Waldo Emerson explains that the effect of nature on him is that of a “higher thought or a better emotion” coming over him when

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he thought he was already thinking justly or doing right

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in section 1 of his writing on “Nature”, Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us that the stars separate man from things he can touch and change, this design giving him

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“the perpetual presence of the sublime”

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in section 6 of his writing on “Nature,” Ralph Waldo Emerson expresses his belief in the healing power of nature:

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“I feel that nothing can befall me…,–no disgrace, no calamity… which nature cannot repair”

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