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
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
“All mean egotism vanishes”
in section 3 of his writing on Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us that, though farmers can own their farms, they can’t own
the landscape… the “property in the horizon”
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
he thought he was already thinking justly or doing right
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
“the perpetual presence of the sublime”
in section 6 of his writing on “Nature,” Ralph Waldo Emerson expresses his belief in the healing power of nature:
“I feel that nothing can befall me…,–no disgrace, no calamity… which nature cannot repair”