"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Mrs. Eriksson https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8 Post the single most important quote from your section. This may be the quote that best reflects the idea of transcendental thought, or the quote that best captures Emerson's point in the paragraph you worked with. en-us 2017-09-21 16:25:32 UTC 2017-09-22 16:37:58 UTC hello@padlet.com "Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right. Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838256 This supports the idea that man and nature are connected together, and it takes both of them to produce a relationship.]]> 2017-09-21 16:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838256 "As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque, until its infancy, when it is all poetry; of all spiritual facts are represented by natural symbol. https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838570 people in history used nature to describe things , like we do now. ]]> 2017-09-21 16:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838570 "In the woods, we return to reason and faith." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838656 Being in nature can make people feel like their faith has relevance in their life again. It's also implied that faith and reason are the same thing, like your faith is fact to you.]]> 2017-09-21 16:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838656 "The sun shines to-day also...Let us demand our own works and laws and worship." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838850 Life is great and fruitful. We can be our own person with our own chances to be the best version of ourselves.]]> 2017-09-21 16:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838850 "In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to simulate the understanding or the affections." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838948 Lying can change how you see something]]> 2017-09-21 16:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189838948 "An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839037 Everything that man has in life, there is an equivalent in nature. Nature reflects the human life. ]]> 2017-09-21 16:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839037 "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839053 2017-09-21 16:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839053 "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839181 We take nature for granted a lot. If we didn't see stars every night we would be amazed when we do see them.]]> 2017-09-21 16:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839181 ".. for every hour and change corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind.." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839189 Not everyone will have the same views on every hour. Some will have bad and some will have good. ]]> 2017-09-21 16:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839189 There is a property on the horizon https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839214 2017-09-21 16:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839214 There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839440 the person that can appreciate nature has the ability to tell about it.]]> 2017-09-21 16:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839440 "Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life, wherein, as in a firmament, the natures of Justice, Truth, Love, Freedom, arise, and shine. https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839458 A person is capable of much more than they think when they are surrounded by the right natures and moralities. ]]> 2017-09-21 16:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839458 "all that is separate from us... that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839586 Emerson is attempting to define what the universe is composed of and what nature is. Nature is anything that is physical. Everything else is the soul.]]> 2017-09-21 16:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839586 "In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy is not material; no confusion of thought will occur." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839624 In a life so simple it's easy to understand everything. ]]> 2017-09-21 16:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839624 https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839671 "We must trust the perfection of the creation so far...]]> 2017-09-21 16:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839671 "We have theories of races and of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approach to an idea of creation." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839705 2017-09-21 16:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839705 "My head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God." sm_eriksson https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839973 This metaphor perfectly reflects the transcendental concept that when man becomes one with nature, he is one with God. If he is "part or particle of God" he is in the most perfect state of existence. ]]> 2017-09-21 16:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189839973 "He is placed in the centre of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189840530 He is referring to man and Emerson means that man is the center of human beings.]]> 2017-09-21 16:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/189840530 "We must trust the perfection of the creation so far..." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190204918 We can't always change things. You just gotta let it happen and trust its gonna work out how its supposed to.]]> 2017-09-22 16:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190204918 "A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190205364 A mans character depends on his ability to tell the truth. 

]]> 2017-09-22 16:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190205364 "Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right. Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190205382 This supports the idea that man and nature are connected together, and it takes both of them to produce a relationship.]]> 2017-09-22 16:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190205382 "He is placed in the centre of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190205558 He is referring to man and Emerson means that man is the center of all that is existing in nature.]]> 2017-09-22 16:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190205558 "Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism." https://padlet.com/sm_eriksson/ho29r5lmj2d8/wish/190205652 Our work is based on the past.

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