Transcendentalism

Nature

by: Emerson

"There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title. To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood"

Reflection:

To me the essay nature, shows that the landsacpe and nature around you really shapes who your are if you allow it to. To the child nature is so great becasue the mind of a child is innocent and undisturbed by the materialistic idems or the responsibilities of the world; therefore a child can see the purity and the beauty in nature. This essay makes me feel humbled because of the inner power and greatness in the landscape that you are emerced in when you are in nature. The idea that a man owns the least important part of the land and does not own the landscape really shows how insignificant, people truely are.