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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... nature , might be hinted at even when we are engaged in conversa- tion , or in other mundane activities . In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made to a third party , to a common nature . That third party or common ...
... nature . Let me enumerate a few of the remarkable properties of that nature . A man con- tains all that is needful to his government within himself . He is made a law unto himself . All real good or evil that can befall him must be from ...
... nature : who could ever analyze it ? That rushing stream will not stop to be observed . We can never surprise nature in a corner ; never find the end of a thread ; never tell where to set the first stone . The bird hastens to lay her ...