...adjusted to each other; who has retained the . . . spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the...always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. 65 "The woods," or nature in general, became for Emerson synonymous with his own feminine self, which,...

...adjusted to each other' (5-6), this lover will find a perpetual benediction. In the woods, Emerson says, 'a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,...is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth' (5-6). Emerson talks of the 'plastic power of the human eye' and concludes that 'The eye is the best...

..."transparent eyeball" passage from Nature. Walking across a bare common, he says, "in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration ... I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; I am part or parcel of God." In the process...

...suddenly one hears whistling and realizes life is a gift. "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration," Ralph Waldo Emerson reported in "Nature." I travel widely in books, practically every day roaming the...

..."Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thought any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed...a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear."19 Clearly, Fernando Chacel has similar and equally strong emotional ties to the rich variety...

...poetical imagery rather than the traditional philosophical idiom: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, 1 have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. 1 am glad to the brink of fear. ...In the woods, we return to...

...most famous example occurs in Nature, when Emerson describes a spiritual and imaginative epiphany: In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth . . . There I feel that...

...ecstatic experience, that of his "crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight." He claims to "have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." This experience transports him: "Standing on the bare ground, ... all mean egotism vanishes. I become...

...wrong course by going into the solitude of nature. Especially in the woods, man is able to "[cast] off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever in life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. [...] In the woods we return to reason...

..."Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thought any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed...a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear."79 If there is some intimation of a Wordsworthian pantheism here, not least in the adjacency...