Transcendentalist: Nature

The benefit of nature according to Ralph Waldo Emerson is an over whelming feeling of detachment from the world and it’s worries. A sense of calm and causality drapes over you in the form of the comforting wilderness. The effect that open land can impact on sometime can be very trivial or in other cases redeeming. The sense of redemption comes from the withdrawal from the society of cities and towns were people act business like in all their doings. Taking a vacation from this a city can arouse delight, fascination, and superstition in the viewers of nature. These people who are roused by these strong feelings when in nature could be transcendentalist or just merely natural people or enjoy their natural environment.

Emerson talks about the various aspects of nature that can appeal to the human soul and why. The colors of the trees during the various seasons can reflect the emotions of the people viewing them. The weather can impact the trees, grass, and other plants the same way life can impact it’s liver. The sky can embed all of nature’s feelings in one massive expansive view that all can see. The sky can seem forbidding or charmingly unreal depending on the eye that views it and how they feel at the time. Transcendentalists are very firm believers in nature’s characteristics and their spiritual benefits.

The text of "Nature" very strongly comes from Transcendentalist influence. The aspect of finding spirituality in nature is undoubtedly a common trait in transcendentalism. The feeling of being a god like figure can be found by reflecting on nature according to Emerson described in this text from "Nature." "I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of god." The feeling of being absorbed into a higher point of view from a faraway sense of seclusion. Like God’s sense of conclusion from the earth that he created.