The Renaissance Era was full of writers like Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many others that believed Nature was supreme in the universe. They believed that the trees and the animals were supreme over the world and were the most powerful things in the world. That Nature was beautiful and superior to everyone and everything.
I disagree with the Renaissance Era writers. I believe that this is a false statement. Nature is not the most superior thing in the universe because God is. Nature is a part of the most supreme thing in the universe which in the Lord. Nature had to be created to be even remotely powerful. There are many verses in the Bible that tells how God is supreme over nature and how He created it. Isaiah 40: 28 says, “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable.” This verse means God is everlasting and He won’t become weary. This means He is extremely powerful too. He is bigger
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The believe Nature is beautiful, This is very true . Nature is beautiful through its colors. The different colors of plants and animals are very pretty. The life forces in Nature are beautiful too. All the different species working together to proclaim His glory. Job 37: 14-16 says, “Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders. Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes His lightning flash? Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?” This is asking questions about how God works through Nature. It asks how He works and makes things happen. The writer also believe Nature in very powerful. That is also very true. Nature can extremely powerful like healing purposes. The plants found in nature can be used to make medicine. There is also food in Nature like berries or animals in nature. That is how nature is
In Emerson’s “Nature” nature is referred to as “plantations of god” meaning that nature is sacred. Also mentioned, is that “In the woods is perpetual youth”(#) conveying that nature keeps people young. Therefore, these excerpts show that nature is greatly valued by these transcendentalists. Transcendentalists would likely care significantly about the environment. In contrast, nowadays nature is often and afterthought. Natures’ resources are being depleted for human use, and the beauty of nature is also not as appreciated by modern people as it was by transcendentalists. The threat to nature in modern times contrasts to the great appreciation of nature held by authors like Emerson and
...ion: does nature lead to the source of all good? I believe that it does lead to some good, especially in this story but not all good. If we are prepared, I think that nature can teach us anything we may need to know. If you don’t know about something and you want to know, you go in nature to find an answer or to find the truth.
God: “[...] all the infinite host of heaven...” (46) Therefor reflecting back to the previous
over exaggerates. It tells that he is very strong and powerful to be able to do
Throughout the Romanticism period, human’s connection with nature was explored as writers strove to find the benefits that humans receive through such interactions. Without such relationships, these authors found that certain aspects of life were missing or completely different. For example, certain authors found death a very frightening idea, but through the incorporation of man’s relationship with the natural world, readers find the immense utility that nature can potentially provide. Whether it’d be as solace, in the case of death, or as a place where one can find oneself in their own truest form, nature will nevertheless be a place where they themselves were derived from. Nature is where all humans originated,
Man has destroyed nature, and for years now, man has not been living in nature. Instead, only little portions of nature are left in the world
He believed the more you emerge with nature, the more divine you will be, because God made nature art. He also brings up the argument that if you don’t associate with nature then you don’t understand your surroundings just like you won’t understand God. In the “Nature,” he says “We are as much strangers to nature as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rent us.
We are first going to break down the importance of nature. Transcendentalists believed in a monistic universe, or one in which God is immanent in nature. The creation is an emanation of the creator; although a distinct entity, God is permanently and directly present in all things. This thought can be seen in Emerson’s “Nature” on line seven and thirty, “Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign… / Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” Here Emerson metaphorically compares nature to the “plantations of God” in which the spirit of God is always present.
nature is not as in the plant and tree kind of nature, but on the nature of man at a
Many have said nature is the best medicine for the soul. Have you ever noticed the simple bliss and purity nature holds? Never competing, never degrading, never giving up the purity it holds. Nature can keep its blissful purity untroubled in the moment not convicted by what all society has brought into this world. Furthermore, many find nature as their safe place, the one place they can go too and no one can interfere with their happiness. John Muir and William Wordsworth noticed
From the lone hiker on the Appalachian Trail to the environmental lobby groups in Washington D.C., nature evokes strong feelings in each and every one of us. We often struggle with and are ultimately shaped by our relationship with nature. The relationship we forge with nature reflects our fundamental beliefs about ourselves and the world around us. The works of timeless authors, including Henry David Thoreau and Annie Dillard, are centered around their relationship to nature.
Throughout history it has always been shown that nature can overcome man. Natural disasters such as Earthquakes and blizzards are just two examples of how nature overcomes man. It is shown that man is no match to nature because the humans do almost always end up dying to the hands of nature. Man, can also die to nature because of how nature controls the seasons. We rely on nature to rain to help grow crops, and without it none of the food would grow.
Nature, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is a literary work about natural world and its properties. Nature is divided into an introduction and eight chapters. Emerson defines nature as everything separate from the inner individual. The inner individual meaning the soul. The titles of the eight chapters are: Nature, Commodity, Beauty, Language, Discipline, Idealism, Spirit, and Prospects. In chapter three, Emerson introduces the idea of beauty. Beauty is a part of the natural world and it serves our needs and desires. He makes it clear that beauty is a nobler want of humanity (Emerson, 944). Beauty is not absolutely necessary for the survival of man, but it is beneficial and extremely useful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882), the leader of the Transcendentalism in New England, is the first American who wrote prose and poem on nature and the relationship between nature and man Emerson's philosophy of Transcendentalism concerning nature is that nature is only another side of God "the gigantic shadow of God cast our senses." Every law in nature has a counterpart in the intellect. There is a perfect parallel between the laws of nature and the laws of thought. Material elements simply represent an inferior plane: wherever you enumerate a physical law, I hear in it a moral rule. His poem The Rhodora is a typical instance to illustrate his above-mentioned ideas on nature. At the very beginning of the poem, the poet found the fresh rhodora in the woods, spreading its leafless blooms in a deep rock, to please the desert and the sluggish brook, while sea-winds pieced their solitudes in May. It is right because of the rhodora that the desert and the sluggish brook are no longer solitudes. Then the poem goes to develop by comparison between the plumes of the redbird and the rhodora . Although the bird is elegant and brilliant, the flower is much more beautiful than the bird. So the sages can not helping asking why this charm is wasted on the earth and sky. The poet answers beauty is its own cause for being just as eyes are made for seeing. There is no other reason but beauty itsel...
The power of nature is all around us and can be found almost anywhere. One is able to study nature through experiencing it firsthand, looking at a picture, watching a movie, or even reading a familiar children’s story. I believe that by learning more about nature we can grow closer to God. Emerson states, “Nature is so pervaded in human life, that there is something of humanity in all, and in every particular” (Emerson 508). Like Emerson, I believe that humanity and nature were created by God and we can learn more about the Spirit of God by studying nature. I also see that nature has the power to influence our emotions and actions. I see evidence of this through various landscapes such as the desert, the beach, the mountains and the jungle. I thought about the vastness of the desert during a recent trip to the desert with my class. I think about nature and my love for it when I am scanning through my photo album and see pictures that capture me enjoying the mountains of Utah. When I watched the movie The Beach I was struck out how nature, specifically the beautiful beaches of Thailand, influenced the actions of every character in the movie. Of course it is hard to read a legendary story such as “Jungle Book” and not see what a powerful effect nature and its’ animals can have over humans.