Nature -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, the famed philosopher 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Ralph Waldo Emerson<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 10/01/2009<br><b>Pages:</b> 128<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.17lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.10h x 4.30w x 0.50d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780141042480<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Ralph Waldo Emerson</b>, the son of a Unitarian minister and a chaplain during the American Revolution, was born in 1803 in Boston. He attended the Boston Latin School, and in 1817 entered Harvard, graduating in 1820. Emerson supported himself as a schoolteacher from 1821-26. In 1826 he was approbated to preach, and in 1829 became pastor of the Scond Church (Unitarian) in Boston. That same year he married Ellen Louise Tucker, who was to die of tuberculosis only seventeen months later. In 1832 Emerson resigned his pastorate and traveled to Eurpe, where he met Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. He settled in Concord, Massachuset