 | Judith Fitzgerald, Michael Oren Fitzgerald - 2005 - 234 pages
...see all, the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and...man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) (A, ert cannot change or overstep the natural order or the universe.... | |
 | Jan Johnson-Smith - 2005 - 322 pages
...uplifted into infinite space - all mean egotism vanishes ... In the wilderness I find something more clear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil...man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. 18 The aspirations associated with the West are represented through an elevation of landscape, while... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...analogy that marries Matter and Mind" (E&L 43, 26; italics added). In the book's opening chapters, the "greatest delight which the fields and woods minister,...an occult relation between man and the vegetable. . . . Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man,... | |
 | Claudio Saragosa - 2005 - 312 pages
...uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate then in the streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and...especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds some what as beautiful as his own nature»12. Il testo principale di George Perkins Marsh è sicuramente... | |
 | Jeffrey Myers - 2005 - 212 pages
...a manifesto for an important strain of Romantic ecological thought" (103). When Emerson states that "in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages" (193), he expresses a sense of the worth of the nonhuman world that goes against the grain of dominant... | |
 | Roger S. Gottlieb - 2006 - 685 pages
...Emerson experiences not simply awe at distant splendor but intimacy with the more-than-human world: "The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister...and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them." And yet ultimately, for Emerson, it was not nature itself that had spiritual value: "All the facts... | |
 | 2006 - 254 pages
...51) and of the poet and philosopher's essay "Nature": "In the woods we return to reason and faith. The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister...the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged." (Emerson, "Nature": 6) Kingsolver's short story indeed reveres Emerson's writings on symbolism: it... | |
 | Heather Hole, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - 2007 - 200 pages
...head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. ... In the wilderness, I find something more dear and...horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."11 This has direct bearing on Hartleys landscapes throughout his career. The transcendentalist... | |
 | Roger Lundin - 2007 - 282 pages
...with latent meanings: "Nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design"; in the "tranquil landscape, and especially in the...beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature"; "it is things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact"; a life... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2007 - 525 pages
...slaughter £ Fate to Pygmaean men. [PJ 2:234] 65 Hidden, inscrutable. 66 Possible allusion to Emerson's Nature: "The greatest delight which the fields and...an occult relation between man and the vegetable." Each day the grass springs and is greener. The skunkcabbage is inclosed in its spathe, but the willow... | |
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I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, — master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the... 
