...Glory though in fact, Mr Bluebottle, I agree this sundae is a touch too rich, and sticky. Bad Vision Nothing can befall me in life— no disgrace, no calamity...(leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. I become a transparent eyeball. No, Mister Emerson, you loveable American, transparency is impossible,...

...boundaries of self we can then find that some larger energy works through us. Emerson (1990) wrote: Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,-all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball, I am nothing, I see all, the currents...

...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods,...(leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. These observations already reflect a conscious awareness of the movement away from the common condition...

...the expansiveness of open plains. "In the presence of nature," he wrote in his 1836 essay 'Nature,' "standing on the bare ground,— my head bathed by...into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes . . . the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." In New...

...to explain a collective wisdom that could come through nature: "In the woods, is perpetual youth.... In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), that nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare...

...awareness not as a moment of "mean egotism" or of Romantic defiance but of oneness, of selflessness: In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing...

...transcendental expetience. Hence he celebrares the dissolution of his whole being into a "transparent eye-ball": Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinire space, — all mean egotism vanishes, I become a transparent eye-balL I am nothing. I see...

...addition, the middle part of this same sentence also uses a violent image to capture the notion of ecstasy: "my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space." According to grammatical logic, the only thing that could be "uplifted into infinite space" is Emerson's...

...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods,...eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,— all mean egotism vanishes....

...Emerson in Nature sowohl auf spirituelle als auch auf physikalische Prozesse an: „There [in the woods] I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace,...(leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair." 477 Aus seinem Elfenbeinturm heraus erscheint für Emerson Natur als Fortsatz der Seele. In dem Kapitel...