Nature: Addresses and Lectures

"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1849)

Nature-Addresses and Lectures (1849) is a collection that brings together several short commentaries by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson is among the most quoted of American writers, and his essays are considered classics. This volume includes Emerson's seminal long essay on nature, along with lectures entitled "The Transcendentalist" and "Man the Reformer," along with addresses entitled "The American Scholar," "Divinity School Address," "Literary Ethics," and "The Method of Nature."