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Born: May 25, 1803 - Boston, MA
Died: April 27, 1882 - Concord, MA
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 o speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
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Teaching Topics in Social Studies
Ralph Waldo Emerson helped found the TRANSCENDENTALIST movement, a philosophy that
supported the ideas behind ABOLITION, CONSERVATION and other SOCIAL REFORMS. He lived and wrote against the back drop of the rise of INDUSTRIALISM and THE CIVIL WAR.
Teaching Topics in Language Arts
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He was trained as a minister and broke with the church but became a public LECTURER, influencing
others with his ideas through SPEECHES and published ESSAYS. Nature is a sort of MANIFESTO for transcendentalism.
| Facts About Emerson and Nature |
- A legacy from his first wife's estate gave him the financial freedom to focus on thinking and writing
- Nature was published anonymously in 1836, but soon attributed to Emerson
- Within the first ten years of its publication only 500 copies were sold
- While Nature was not widely sold or read, its author did support himself and his family by giving lectures on the topics it contained
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