Nature

By Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Ralph Waldo, W Emerson R

Book Overview

Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, the famed philosopher unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141042486
• ISBN13: 9780141042480
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Classic. Inspirational blend of nature and spirit

Emerson pure transcendental philosophy. Most enjoyable in subject , descriptions and depth

My Novel Review

An exquisite pocket sized edition. Emerson, as always, will stun you with his prose style rhetoric. "I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall."

Nature and Other Writings

Emerson is a genious. His words in this small edition are just as sweet and easily accessable. It is handy to have a small version to keep close at all times. Everytime I look at the night sky I think of a quote of Emerson, "But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile." That alone is a reason to own the work of Emerson.