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Slide 1:Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1802-1882) --By Jim Valero
Slide 2:Quotes from
Nature
Slide 3:If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Slide 4:Nature never wears a mean appearance. . .
Slide 5:Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Slide 6:To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun . . . .
Slide 7:The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child . . . .
Slide 8:The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other. . . .
Slide 9:The lover of nature is he who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. . . .
Slide 10:In the presence of nature a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. . . .
Slide 11:Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky. . . I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. . . .
Slide 12:In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of his life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. . . .
Slide 13:In the woods, we return to reason and faith . . . all egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all. . . .
Slide 14:The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. . . .
Slide 15:I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. . .
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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