Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Forest Unseen

In the book Nature, Emerson writes in a way that deals with the morals we have in our lives and how these things come from nature at its’ base form. Emerson says that nature is the things that are unchanged or untouched by man. When Haskell writes his journal entries in the book The Forest Unseen he refutes Emerson a good bit of the time. He does this by the way he focuses in on things too much and looks past their importance in the macrocosm we live in. Emerson says these things should not be zoomed in on but should just be looked at in awe. I feel that although Haskell refutes Emerson a good bit, Haskell is not trying to refute Emerson and at one point in his book he actually confirms a few of Emerson’s ideas.
“Every natural process is a version of a moral sentence. The moral law lies at the centre of nature and radiates to the

Then at the end of the “Chainsaw” passage, Haskell explains that he believes that by, “examing the fabric that holds and sustains us can we see our place, and therefore, our responsibilities.”(TFU 66.) Haskell is saying that this “fabric” that holds us together is nature. To find who we really are we must look at just this nature alone. Emerson says the same thing. He believes that nature is pure and is the place where we can receive our morals. Again, later in the passage Haskell supports Emerson. Haskell says that by having these direct experiences of nature that Emerson talks about we can learn about ourselves and in turn learn more about morality. When we examine Haskell’s work “Chainsaw” some more we see he that he agrees with Emerson again. Haskell says that it is extremely bad to “destroy a gift that even hardheaded science tells us is immeasurably valuable”.(TFU 66.) Like Emerson, Haskell thinks that destroying nature or using it, as material for us is bad. Haskell and believes that to define it as a material takes away the special part of