Nature And Selected Essays

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780593512258

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Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781423652700

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Nature and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

A collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” “Love,” and “Art.” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous essay “Nature” declared that understanding nature was the key to understanding God and reality, and laid the groundwork for transcendentalism. His legacy of boldly questioning the doctrine of his day and connecting with nature will resonate with today’s readers in search of meaning and enlightenment. Essays include “Nature” (1836) and Emerson’s first series, published in 1841: “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “Compensation,” “Spiritual Laws,” “Love,” “Friendship,” “Prudence,” “Heroism,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,” “Intellect,” and “Art.” Nature and Other Essays joins Gibbs Smith’s best-selling Wilderness series. Standing beside the works of his protégée Henry David Thoreau, as well as John Muir, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Jack London, these essays are reissued to encourage and inspire philosophers, travelers, campers, and contemporary naturalists. Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803–April 27, 1882) was a famous lecturer, philosopher, poet, and writer. He led the transcendentalist movement of the 1800s, mentored Henry David Thoreau, and was a pioneer of multiculturalism in American writing.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074814173

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Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Wes Jackson
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781582438931

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Nature as Measure by Wes Jackson Pdf

An essential and timely collection of wise and compelling essays from one of the longtime leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement in America. Wes Jackson, “a well–known and admired advocate for sustainability especially as it relates to agriculture, has the rare ability to transform his convictions into captivating prose . . . Jackson’s thoughts are still as significant and profound as they were nearly 20 years ago” (Publishers Weekly) and can teach us many things about the land, soil, and conservation, but what most resonates is this: The ecosphere is self–regulating, and as often as we attempt to understand it, we are not its builders, and our manuals will often be faulty. The only responsible way to learn the nuances of the land is to study the soil and vegetation in their natural state and pass this knowledge on to future generations. “[A] small book rich in ideas” (The New York Times Book Review), Nature as Measure collects Jackson’s essays from Altars of Unhewn Stone and Becoming Native to This Place, presenting ideas of land conservation and education that are written from the point of view of a man who has practiced what he’s preached and proven that it is possible to partially restore much of the land that we’ve ravaged. Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy, grounded in nature’s principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both. His longtime friend Wendell Berry provides an informative, contextual Introduction. “For those concerned about what will be left and how many billion will be starving in twenty years, this is a must read.” —Register of the Kentucky Historical Society “A good introduction to a thinker whose ideas on agriculture are radical both in their technical approach to food production as well as in terms of the economic, social, and cultural context within which it is practiced.” —Review of Radical Political Economics

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Coyote Canyon Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780982129838

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Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

The six essays and one address in this volume flesh out Emerson's transcendentalist ideas. In addition to the celebrated title essay, the others included here are "History," "Friendship," "The Over-Soul," "The Poet" and "Experience," plus the famous Harvard Divinity School Address.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074812847

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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780698405622

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Upstream by Mary Oliver Pdf

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. “There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . .” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “Uniting essays from Oliver’s previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet’s thoughts on the natural, spiritual and artistic worlds . . .” —The New York Times “In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.

Author : Lisa Knopp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0803278144

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The Nature of Home by Lisa Knopp Pdf

For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell ill, and only when she decided to return home didøshe recover. Homesickness is the triggering event for this collection of essays concerned with nothing less than what it means to feel at home. Knopp writes masterfully about ecology, place, and the values and beliefs that sustain the individual within an impersonal world. She is passionate about her subject whether it be an endangered beetle in the salt marshes near Lincoln, Nebraska, a forgotten Nebraska inventor, a museum muralist, a paleontologist, or Arbor Day as the misguided attempt of Eastern settlers to ?correct? a perceived deficiency in the Great Plains landscape. Here is a writer who has read widely and judiciously and for whom everything resonates within the intricately structured definition of home.

Author : José Luis Bermúdez,Alan Millar (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199256837

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Reason and Nature by José Luis Bermúdez,Alan Millar (Ph. D.) Pdf

In a series of essays nine philosophers and two psychologists address three main themes: the status of norms of rationality; the precise form taken by them; and the role of norms in belief and actions.

Author : Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph Paul Guyer,Paul Guyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199273461

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Kant's System of Nature and Freedom by Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosoph Paul Guyer,Paul Guyer Pdf

The governing theme of this volume is the role of systematicity in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Kant's System of Nature and Freedom will be essential for anyone working on the history of modern philosophy and related areas of ethics, philosophy of science, and metaphysics.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000980351

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Essays, Lectures and Orations by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1325 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0940450151

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Essays & Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

Author : Lissa Schneider-Rebozo,Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy,John G. Peters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351721363

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Conrad and Nature by Lissa Schneider-Rebozo,Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy,John G. Peters Pdf

Conrad and Nature is the first collection of critical essays examining nature and the environment in Joseph Conrad’s writings. Together, these essays by established and emerging scholars reveal both the crucial importance of nature in Conrad’s work, and the vital, ongoing relevance of Conrad’s treatment of the environment in our era of globalization and climate change. No richer subject matter for an environmentally-engaged criticism can be found than the Conradian contexts and themes under investigation in this volume: island cultures, colonial occupations, storms at sea, mining and extraction, inconstant weather, ecological collapse, and human communities competing for resources. The 17 essays collected here —13 new essays, and 4 excerpts from classic works of Conradian scholarship -- consolidate some of the most important voices and perspectives on Conrad’s relation to the natural world, and open new avenues for Conradian and environmental scholarship in the 21st century.

Author : Robert Michael Pyle
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781640092761

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Nature Matrix by Robert Michael Pyle Pdf

Nature Matrix is a gathering of some of Robert Michael Pyle’s most significant, original, and timely expressions of a life immersed in the natural world, in all its splendor, power, and peril Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays contains sixteen pieces that encompass the philosophy, ethic, and aesthetic of Robert Michael Pyle. The essays range from Pyle’s experience as a young national park ranger in the Sierra Nevada to the streets of Manhattan; from the suburban jungle to the tangles of the written word; and from the phenomenon of Bigfoot to that of the Big Year—a personal exercise in extreme birding and butterflying. They include deep profiles of John Jacob Astor I and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as excursions into wild places with teachers, children, and writers. The nature of real wilderness in modern times comes under Pyle’s lens, as does reconsideration of his trademark concept, “the extinction of experience”—maybe the greatest threat of alienation from the living world that we face today. Nature Matrix shows a way back toward possible integration with the world, as it plumbs the range and depth of experience in one lucky life lived in close connection to the physical earth and its denizens. This collection brings together the thoughts and hopes of one of our most widely read and respected natural philosophers as he seeks to summarize a life devoted to conservation.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books : Washington Square Press, 1965 (1977 printing)
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : American literature
ISBN : OSU:32435005344973

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Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Pdf

A collection of writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including sermons, poems, and journal excerpts, as well as a portion of his contributions to "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli," with critical interpretations, and essays that examine the context in which Emerson wrote, and his critical reception.