Nature

By Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Book Id: WPLBN0002950645
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Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Nature
Author:	Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Nature, Philosophy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Nature; by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Historic Publication Date:	1836
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Waldo Emerson, B. R. (1836). Nature. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. 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. The publication of Nature is usually taken to be the watershed moment at which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. Henry David Thoreau had read Nature as a senior at Harvard College and took it to heart. It eventually became an essential influence for Thoreau's later writings, including his seminal Walden. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia by Neeru Iyer)

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Nature, Philosophy