Карточки "Nature" Ralph Waldo Emerson Modern Translation | Quizlet

"Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece."

Nature is versatile or all-encompassing

"In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue."

When the weather is good, nature is warm and inviting.

"Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration."

Nature can be exhilarating

"I am glad to the brink of fear"

So happy it scares me

"In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is always a child."

In nature, man is always a child.

"In the woods is perpetual youth"

There is always renewal in nature

"Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years."

God equals nature, nature equals sanctity (safety), nature is something that never ends. Those who appreciate shall never tire of nature.

"In the woods, we return to reason and faith."

Once in the woods )away from society and conformity) we regain reason and faith

"There I feel that nothing can befall me in life- no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.

Nature is a comforter, protector, and healer

"Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes."

Nature vanquishes vain thoughts and selfishness

"I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."

Everything is one in nature (Oversoul)

"The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance."

Labels are erased and societal standards are removed

"I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty."

Nature represents infinite beauty

"In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages."

Nature is more natural than the streets/villages or society/conformity

"In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."

The nature of man (or the way a person is) is beautiful in its innocence when not corrupted by society and conformity. Innocence can only be retrieved when man is with nature

"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable."

Relationship of man to vegetation is a relationship that goes beyond the natural world; it's magical relationship

"I am not alone and unacknowledged."

The act as companions

"They nod to me, and I to them."

There is a sense of communication between man and vegetation

"The waving of the boughs in the storm is new to me and old."

Nature is old hat, but always seems fresh

"It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown."

we are familiar with nature, but it still holds astonishment and wonder

"Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right."

The same sense felt when taking part in an unselfish act or a just action (for a higher cause) resides in nature

"Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or in harmony of both."

Power to produce these feelings resides in man when he is in harmony with nature

"It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance."

Moderation is a must when reveling in the delights of nature

"For nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy today."

The mood or weather of nature always changes

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

Nature is always viewed through the eyes of the beholder

"To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it."

Your emotions affect your spirit

"Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend."

Those dealing with grief hold everything in disdain or contempt

"The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population."

THe sky (nature) is being held in lesser esteem by man

blasphemy

the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.

heretic

someone who goes against accepted religious beliefs

idealism

the practice of forming or pursuing ideals, especially unrealistically.

intuitions

gut feelings

occult

(adj.) mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means;

(v.) to hide, conceal; eclipse;

(n.) matters involving the supernatural

perception

The act of becoming aware through the senses

philosophy

A system of beliefs and values

theology

the study of religion

transcend

to rise above or beyond, exceed

unitarianism

Christian doctrine that stresses individual freedom of belief and rejects the Trinity

utopia

an ideal society

oversoul

a divine spirit supposed to pervade the universe and to encompass all human souls

"It is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the Eternal one"

The Dial

the publication of the transcendentalists. It appealed to people who wanted "perfect freedom", "progress in philosophy and theology . . . and hope that the future will not always be as the past."

Brook Farms

Intellectual commune in Massachusetts based on "plain living and high thinking"