Books with title Nutty Nature

Nature is a famous essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836. The essay is the cornerstone of transcendentalism in which Emerson divides nature into four stages: Commodity, Beauty, Language, and Discipline. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet and lecturer who led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century. Emerson and his friend Henry David Thoreau were both seen as early champions of individualism.

The roots of the Transcendentalism movement reach deep and wide. With this essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson combines elements from European Romanticism, ancient Indian religions, and the more recent Unitarian thought into a uniquely American philosophy based on an ideal relationship between mankind and nature. “Let us inquire,” he states in his Introduction, “to what end is nature?” He identifies four “uses”: Commodity—the functional benefits we derive from nature: Beauty—the sensual delights it brings; Language—words, all of which trace their genesis to some aspect of nature; and Discipline—the truth and permanence of natural order. The concluding chapters are entitled “Idealism,” “Spirit,” and “Prospects.” Emerson extends his inquiry beyond the uses of nature into its connection—and our ability to make a connection with—God. He continues by exploring the prospects of taking a spiritual approach to nature. Doing so, he suggests will enable us to gain insights that may be more broad and valuable than those gained from a more fragmented scientific process. Emerson’s essay had lasting influence, especially for New England writers, such as Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau and among contemporary and later intellectuals who embraced the concept and the name of Transcendentalism.

"Nature" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published in 1836. In this essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. This volume contains seven essays including Nature, they are: 1. Nature 2. Commodity 3. Beauty 4. Language 5. Discipline 6. Idealism 7. Spirit 8. Prospects

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet and led the Transcendentalist movement during the mid-19th century. A critic of the pressures of society on individual freedoms and a champion of individualism. Fighting for changes through his many publications moving slowly away from the religious and social beliefs of others at his time. Emerson was a tremendously influential developing many ideas such as individualism, freedom and the ability for human kind to learn almost anything. He influenced many writers such as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and his friend Henry David Thoreau.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays – Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844 – represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. Together with Nature, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world." He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that have followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of fellow Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.

"Nature" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In this essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature. Emerson's visit to the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris inspired a set of lectures he later delivered in Boston which were then published.Within the essay, Emerson divides nature into four usages: Commodity, Beauty, Language and Discipline. These distinctions define the ways by which humans use nature for their basic needs, their desire for delight, their communication with one another and their understanding of the world. Emerson followed the success of "Nature" with a speech, "The American Scholar", which together with his previous lectures laid the foundation for transcendentalism and his literary career.