Book description
Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to
recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing
positive force. Emerson's writings were recognized as uniquely American
in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new
way of looking at the world. Throughout history, some books have changed
the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each
other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives
- and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great
thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook
civilization and helped make us who we are. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803
1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the
Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century.
