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  • Published: 27 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141036823
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $19.99
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Penguin Books Great Ideas

Nature



Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson’s writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea of going for a walk as a new way of looking at the world.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

  • Published: 27 October 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141036823
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the authors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803­–1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister, continuing a long line of ministers in his family. He traveled widely and lectured, and became well known for his publications Essays and Nature.