...Emerson's sense of a benevolent, nurturing spirit in nature is characteristic of Native American religion: "The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister,...and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them." Emerson's thinking also resembled Native American responses to nature in its pragmatism and anthropomorphism....

...all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me: I am part or particle of God. . . . The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister,...and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged (Nature, pp. 10-11). Emerson's overheated prose contains a number of literary echoes. Most importantly...

...comparison of his view to Kant's and Hegel's. Shortly after the passage quoted above, Emerson writes, "In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the...horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."31 Of course, the infusion of self into landscape is a topos of Romantic thought, but I believe...

...sunset's transcendent essence really originates within her own radiant nature. Emerson had said that "in the tranquil landscape, and especially in the...horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."9 For Alexandra, too, her own nature proves to be her most valuable acquisition from the horizon....

...circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The greatest delight which the woods and fields minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation...the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. Statements such as these have led at least one critic to declare that Nature "might even be described...

...Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or parcel of God . . . The greatest delights which fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. Emerson's reference here to vitalism — the currents of a universal being — strongly echoes both...

...and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets and villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially...man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. (Essays, 10) In "Democratic Individuality and the Claims of Politics," George Kateb argues that this...

...am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil...man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature. Here we have the characteristic Emersonian move that Stein continues in The Geographical History of...

...moments over time. The past is a living presence. Immediately preceding the quote in question he writes, "In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the...beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature." To experience the horizon is to sense that everything else lies beyond it, and that this includes all...

...am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil...beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature." ..,.,., , „ what did Emerson mean by ...no Emerson concluded that the way to God's truth is by communicating...