Nature

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a book-length essay published in 1836. This foundational work introduces transcendentalism, a belief system proposing that the divine suffuses nature and that reality can be understood through studying the natural world. Emerson divides nature into four usages—Commodity, Beauty, Language, and Discipline—exploring how humans relate to their environment.

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