Nature and Selected Essays

Fifteen essays illustrate Emerson''s ideas of the relation of nature to the self, the uniquely American perception of co-existence with, rather than brute domination of, nature. 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. This title introduces fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings.