Emerson: Nature

I thought that the text Nature by Emerson was very interesting. I've read Emerson before but never at length, more like bits and pieces.

I think that it is an interesting thought to "lose oneself in nature". I've always enjoyed being outdoors and that is what I generally think of when I hear the word "nature". However, Emerson puts a twist on the term and chooses to represent nature as more than just the outdoors. Nature to Emerson is everything that is not your soul. That perspective got me thinking of how things that are so familiar to me could be represented as foreign according to Emerson.

I like the concept of becoming apart of the natural world and having it teach us about ourselves. I feel that people get swept away in their day to day lives (myself included) and forget that there is so much more than the city and our lives inside the city.