Nature and Selected Essays

Author(s) : Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and Selected Essays

Book Details

  • Publisher : Penguin Books
  • Published : January 2003
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 416
  • Category :
    Ecology
  • Category 2 :
    Environmental Studies
  • Catalogue No : 96345
  • ISBN 13 : 9780142437629
  • ISBN 10 : 014243762X
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Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances.

His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism. Larzer Ziff's introduction to this collection of fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provides the important backdrop to the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years.

About the Author(s)

There are few people as quoted and quotable as Ralph Waldo Emerson, founder of the transcendental movement and author of classic essays as Self-Reliance, Nature, and The American Scholar. Emerson began his career as a Unitarian minister and later put those oratory skills to move us toward a better society. More remains written on him than by him.

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