Nature - Introduction - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Channel: Pete Eyre
Date: 2019-08-10

“Nature” — penned by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836 when he was 33 years old — put forth that the the divine suffuses nature, and that reality can be best grasped by studying nature. One commentator at the time pejoratively referred to this perspective as “transcendentalism” — a term that Emerson and his like-minded colleagues adopted. “Nature”, and other work in this vein encouraged introspection, viewing the world like a child (with imagination and awe), trusting oneself, interconnectedness (to everyone else and everything else), and self-realization.

Readable, original copy of “Nature” that was digitized: https://archive.org/details/naturemunroe00emerrich/page/n9 

Audio of “Nature” used in this video by Jesse Zuba at LibriVox.org: https://librivox.org/nature-version-2-by-ralph-waldo-emerson/

In peace, liberty and bliss.