...images nature affords him: Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture, (vol. I: 32) The connection of nature to a superior law on the one hand and to the human mind in which...

...when he wrote that people can understand themselves only by spending time in nature: Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture.... All the facts in natural history taken by themselves, have no value, but are barren like a single sex....

...Correspondences, Emerson wrote: ' Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as a picture. An enraged man is a...

...some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of mind, and that state of mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture. . . . Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love....

...things which are emblematic. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...learned man is a torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subde spite; flowers express to us the delicate affections. Light and darkness are our familiar expression...

...some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of mind, and that state of mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture. Ralph Waldo EMERSON referenceless world i do take refuge in bpNICOL Martyrology CHAPTER TWO The Missing...

...things which are emblematic. Kvery natural tact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...picture. An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is ;t fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite;...

...different faces of the same All. Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture. Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Throw a...

...illustrates but also challenges Emerson's claim that 'Every natural fact is also a spiritual fact . . . A lamb is innocence, a snake is subtle spite, flowers express to us the delicate affections.'11 Emerson's symbolism is morally clear-cut, but 'Rappaccini's Daughter', with its re-reading...

...in Emerson's formulation, "every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and...presenting that natural appearance as its picture" (200). Romantic heartbreak shakes Green's persona of a belief in such correspondence; if, in its title,...