A Year with Emerson: A DaybookD.R. Godine, 2003 - 231 psl. Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America's great visionary and philosophical minds. "A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us." A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known throughout the world for his cogent, epigrammatic writing, admired as the "George Washington of American Literature," his work is even more enriching in bigger doses. Daily almanac entries present the heart of Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas and philosophy. Some were written on the very day in which they appear in the book, some are speculations and musings of the season and the natural world, but all are unfailingly wise, still relevant to our modern times. Emerson's mind ranged across the universe even as he traveled the length and breadth of the United States and Europe. With Emerson as a companion and guide, we meet the ideas and personalities he championed and encountered, from Lincoln to John Muir, from Carlyle to Montaigne, and, of course, the close New England circle of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the Alcotts. With company such as this, and the scope of Emerson's vision, you're sure to encounter rich food for thought every day of the year. |
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... Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature . Her secret is patience . You know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest , of plants , of birds , of beasts , of reptiles , of fishes , of the rivers in the sea ...
... leaves , ferns , yea , ripples and rain drops , which have come safe down through a vast antiquity , with all its shocks , upheavals , deluges , and volcanoes , wherein everything noble in art and humanity had perished , yet these ...
... leaves hang silent & sympathetic , unobtrusive & related , like the thoughts which they so hospitably enshrine . Could they tell their sense , they would become the thoughts we have ; could our thoughts take form they would hang as ...