...to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. Space, time, society, labor, climate, food, locomotion, the animals, the mechanical forces, give us...

...to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature," The Selected Writings He [Al Green] had the confidence in his own...

...harmony with nature "will purge the eyes to understand her text. . . . The world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause"; "all things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature";...

...(23). For Emerson, this is the ideal state which man has to pursue and which turns the world into an "open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause" (23). 3.3 Chapter "Spirit": Preserving the Authority of God At the beginning of the chapter "Spirit",...

...to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause" (CollW, 1:23), because, as he notes elsewhere: "In the animal frame ... nature makes the effort to...

...to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause." 74 Doch im wesentlichen ist die ,Natur', von der in diesem „Manifest der Transzendentalistischen...

...to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause."74 Doch im wesentlichen ist die ,Natur', von der in diesem „Manifest der Transzendentalistischen...

...to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden...was unconscious truth, becomes, when interpreted and defined in an object, a part of the domain of knowledge, a new weapon in the magazine of power. EMERSON...

...truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text" so that "the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause (Emerson 1957a: 36). In the same vein, Rachel Carson can assert that the natural landscape "is spread...