...wrote in his first essay on Nature, he had found true exhilaration. "In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth." Indeed, he wrote in the second essay, "we nestle in nature." It is our first and unforgettable abode....

...later we enter the woods at last, we arrive by force of analogy: "In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is always a child." The transition from 152 bare commons to the woods is effected by the word "too": "In the woods, too...

...aus dem Zustand der abgestumpften Weltsicht des "Understanding": "In the woods..., a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth."41 An diesem Punkt sei ein Seitenblick gestattet auf eine Äußerung Sigmund Freuds am Anfang...

...rejuvenating powers of the woods, he writes: Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity rein, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees...In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There 1 feel that nothing can befall me in life— no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature...

...home. Ramblin Rose and Sourdough Bob Elderly and Handicapped Hikers In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. Ralph Waldo Emerson THE GREAT DIVIDE IS SIXTY, ACCORDING TO ROLY MUESER, WHO hiked the trail at sixty-six....

...Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Muir. Emerson, the New England transcendentalist, wrote that "Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity...thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith."1 The activist preservationist position later was undertaken by John Muir, who explored the...

...Melville's passage rewrites the oft-noted (and often parodied) passage from early in Emerson's Nature: In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations...tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we feel we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,— no disgrace,...

...enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...how he should tire of them in a thousand years.... It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind, not to shake our faith in the stability of particular...

...he hears, however measured, or far away." (Henry David Thoreau) "In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 4. Have students share their responses in their groups. Then have each student...

...state of the mind, from breathless noon to grimmest midnight. . . . In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. (Essays and Lectures, 10) In Nature Emerson described the riches that an investment in nature could...