...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...presenting that natural appearance as its picture" (8). Words, or the symbols of language, have a spiritual essence behind them, for Emerson, just like...

...point: nature is a source of moral norms. "Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. . . . An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock" (20). Nature is open to and suggests such correspondence no less than it suggests how it might be used...

..."Every appearance in nature," wrote Emerson, "corresponds to some state of mind, and that state of mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture" (Whicher 32). When in the 1960s a new generation rejected their parents' fear of nature, their return...

...Niederschlag findet. „Every appearance in naiure corresponds to some state of mind, and that state of mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture." 159 Natur offenbart sich zugleich als Manifestation des von dem Betrachter unabhängigen Absoluten...

...things and human thoughts" (p. 22), but then he contents himself with such illustrations as these: "An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch." Nature becomes a repository of analogies that anyone can make but that are easily seen for what they...

...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...