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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1836
Pages
Pages 30

A philosopher walks into the woods, feels himself become a transparent eyeball through which the universe circulates, and tells a young country it needs no borrowed lens to see God in nature.

I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.
Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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