...quick survey of the first few pages of Nature reveals: There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are truly adjusted to each other; who has...

...nonetheless asserted that "none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet".8 Emerson's distinction between materialistic ownership and imaginative appropriation of nature...

...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. (Essays, 9) The passage is striking if we credit Emerson as being aware of Locke's various definitions...

...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. ... In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign,...

...none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This...yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.'" We live within our landscape. We traverse it along thousands of miles of public rights-of-way: provincial...

...as the nature we normally take for granted. "To speak truly," writes Emerson, deadpanning in Nature, "few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun" (CWl:9). This statement recalls the Platonic— New Testament paradox of the sighted blind, those mundane...

...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.64 Here and elsewhere, Emerson's aim is apparently to appropriate the rhetoric of property and...

...individuals. "But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their land-deeds give them no title." 34 For Emerson, as for Thomas Jefferson and John Locke, the material...

...woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There 1s a property 1n the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts,...best part of these men's farms, yet to this their landdeeds give them no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not...

...analogy in the skewed vision of humanity contained in Emerson's description of myopia in "Nature" (1836): "To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature....least they have a very superficial seeing. . . . The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other." In Brooks's...