...them."36 Elsewhere, it was not long after Ralph Waldo Emerson had prescribed "medicinal" nature for the "body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company,"'7 that Summerville, South Carolina, recognized the relationship between civic health and...

..."delights" (he used the word four times in the first chapter) of nature. The value of a walk in the woods: "The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din...craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again." Again and again, he invited the reader to share in his own exhilaration: "Standing...

...preferred the sounds of nature, its purrs offsetting the noise of modern urban life. "The tradesmen, the attorney, comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again," reckoned Ralph Waldo Emerson. Holidays from the buzz of the modern were often...

...willing to enumerate aids to escape. One was the famous walk in the woods celebrated in Nature (1836). "The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din...craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again." Though we may think of the woods as only semi-natural and the walk itself as at...

...nature functions as an axiom of antebellum romanticism, epitomized by Emerson's claim in Nature that "To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious...craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again."55 But where for Emerson the "medicinal" quality of nature is largely spiritual,...

...refuges existed for the elite. Nature's sounds could ease the necessary noise of modern urban life. "The tradesman, the attorney, comes out of the din...craft of the street, and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Indeed, holidays from the buzz of liberal modernity...

...Lord and. as far as it lies in him, magnifies the Lord. Basil the Great (329-379) 1 o the body and the mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) he whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity....

...and supportive of sustainable tourism. Chapter 4 Nature-Based Tourism: Don't Fool with Mother Nature To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious...company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. Ralph Waldo Emerson NATURE-BASED TOURISM WAS NEVER SO GOOD The principal components of sustainable...