...described in poetical imagery rather than the traditional philosophical idiom: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, 1 have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. 1 am glad to the brink of fear. ...In the woods, we return to...

...most famous example occurs in Nature, when Emerson describes a spiritual and imaginative epiphany: In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth . . . There I feel that...

...ecstatic experience, that of his "crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight." He claims to "have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." This experience transports him: "Standing on the bare ground, ... all mean egotism vanishes. I become...

...wrong course by going into the solitude of nature. Especially in the woods, man is able to "[cast] off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever in life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. [...] In the woods we return to reason...

...environment" and cites the boyhood memory of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who noted, "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thought any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to...

...as an adult said, quite in the spirit of the passage quoted from Hudson: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thought any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to...