Transcendentalist Essays: Nature, Self Reliance, Walking, and Civil Disobedience

A collection of famous transcendentalist essays from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.*

Nature, Self Reliance, Walking, and Civil Disobedience.

In*Nature, Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses nature, and suggests that reality can be understood by studying nature.*

Self Reliance*contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's ...