A transcendentalist manifesto finding in the natural world a mirror of spirit and a path to self-reliance.
Books mentioned in Nature (2)
The Tempest by William Shakespeare: “…might be illustrated by a thousand examples from his Plays. I have before me the Tempest, and will cite only these few lines.”
Antigone by Sophocles: “Is not the charm of one of Plato's or Aristotle's definitions, strictly like that of the Antigone of Sophocles?”
Books that mention Nature (2)
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “Nature is forever putting a premium on reality."”
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams: Epigraph: "Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson / Aye, and poets send out the sick spirit to green pastures, like lame horses turned out unshod to the turf to renew their hoofs."