...of infancy" of the poet there is also a physical rejuvenation: "In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth" (2). Nature, Emerson writes, can repair everything and can provide one with a rebirth or a return to...

...world: In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period so ever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth... In the woods, we return to reason and faith. Emerson's younger colleague Henry David Thoreau is best...

...tradition, and a religion of revelation to us . . . why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? ... In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations...years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith." Emerson's contemporary, Henry David Thoreau, did not agree on all points with other Transcendentalists,...

...enthusiastic and elevated feeling of becoming one with the Universe: "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 the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity,...

...wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.... In the woods, too, a man casts offhis years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.... In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no...

...again evoked: "In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at whatever period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth" (E&L 1 0) . "Why in age, / Do we revert so fondly to the walks of Childhood?" asks Wordsworth's Wanderer....

...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, and at what period...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...

...retained the . . . spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...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,...

...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 nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,)...

...christliche Vorstellung einer Konstanz der göttlichen Schöpfung prägt diesen Naturentwurf entscheidend: „In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and a sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them...