...Emerson, in his little book Nature, describes his own religious experience as ecstatic: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." By contrast, Parker, in the Discourse, describes the "sense...

...influence the sublime has on the soul. Here is his famous "transparent eyeball" passage: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate...

...Bates, Mythology of Self, 132; and Bevis, Mind of Winter, 43ff. 65. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 9-10. my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. 1 am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,...

...mind. . . . Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. . . . Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear" (Emerson 1982, 38). Like Emerson, Miller realizes: "One cannot call one's soul one's own if one cannot...

...grasped, to have its life-currents absorbed by what is given. "Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." Life is always worth living [James comments] if one have such responsive sensibilities. ("On a Certain...

...eye-ball" in Nature, describing the enthusiastic and elevated feeling of becoming one with the Universe: "In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the...soever of life, is always a child. [...] In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity,...

...time; each perceived and wondered at the immensity of creation. Emerson (1849/1983) writes: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight under a...sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear Standing on 34...

...SPRING ASPENS, ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST AUTUMN OAKS AND PONDEROSA PINES, CASTLE PINES, DOUGLAS COUNTY In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period so ever of life is always a child. — Ralph Waldo Emerson CONIFERS ALONG THE WEST DOLORES RIVER, SAN...

...—JOURNAL, 1834 What is your Rome, your world? What do you bring to that place where you stand? Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake its slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth....

...wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.... In the woods, too, a man casts offhis years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...always a child. 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...