...nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon,...

...neighborliness of nature that only the Wordsworths among recent major writers had approached. Emerson wrote: "In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat [sic] as beautiful as his own nature."95 Thoreau wrote: "In the bare and bleached crust of the earth...

...precisely because the "I" has been so thoroughly possessed by divine spirit, both within and without: "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." 16 In such a transcendental...

...particular and the specific, we are able to concentrate on the connective tissue in which they are found: 'The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty."32 This experience is, inevitably, intermittent, requiring a special set of circumstances,...

...I see all: the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...be acquaintances, — master or servant, is then a trouble and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I...

...constructs the meeting of self and nature as a contrast between the realm of nature and that of social form ("In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages"), as a highly fluid experience ("head bathed," "currents of the Universal Being circulate through me"),...

...then I walk with a companion, he should speak from his Reason to my Reason; that is, both from God. To be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle too insignificant for remembrance. 34 Though mere fraternity appeared insignificant, Waldo suggests...

...I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance. Trifling disturbances in reading this are all those Ts: how selfless can so reiterated a self have...

...I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign...brothers, to be acquaintances, - master or servant, is than a trifle and a disturbance. I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty, (quoted in Geldard,...

...proper nurture. In such places, says Emerson, reflecting upon his moment of exhilaration on the common, "I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages." B Nevertheless, and in spite of what he knows about the character of industrial society abroad, Emerson...