The excerpt from the essay “Nature,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson explains the Transcendentalist attitude of nature being there for everyone. In “Nature,” Emerson states that nature changes with the opinion of the person who is viewing it. When a person is happy, the sky is bright and birds are chirping, when a person is sad, nature is consoling and attempts to cheer up the person viewing it. This ideology is one that is still prevalent to society today. The phrase “speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today,” reflects the Transcendentalist belief in intuition because the person who is thinking hard follows their intuition by admitting that their intuition could be wrong. When a person …show more content…
The transparency that the person is showing to the world directly implies that they are attempting to show their true selves to some other spectral being, and the spectral being can only be God, or the Over-Soul. (a) Ralph Waldo Emerson’s description of the bonds between people and society are not good ones. Emerson believes that society uses humans as a mean to further advance the few select people, and not to further the advancements of the majority of society. Emerson describes the bond between humans and nature in good terms. Nature is the only thing that a human can truly rely on due to the fact that nature is always there and changes to relate to the moods of the person viewing nature. (b) Ralph Waldo Emerson would say that the bonds between humans and nature are more important than the bonds between humans and society. Transcendentalists believe in the true facts of emotions and reason over the will of society and that nature is the key factor in