Today, many people do not know Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many of those who do ... If we feel alienated from nature, it is because we are suffering a hangover from a certain vanity of thought ...

He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day ...

When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a ...