Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'Nature' By Albert Einstein

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better” by Albert Einstein. The book, Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson, talks about the beauty of nature and how most humans do not realize it exists. Emerson was able to do an excellent job in giving a perspective view on how most people see nature and how the wise spirit once view mother nature. At the start of the short book, Emerson begins to say, “To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society” (Emerson 219), this means that in order for a man to be alone then he must run away from the rest of society, and if a man is alone then “let him look at the stars” (Emerson 219) or he too would be able to look upon the dark skies and notice the shiny stars as never before. Nature is the key to all

Emerson questions the way men see nature by aphorizing, “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore’’ (Emerson 219), this quote is one-hundred percent true, how can anyone be so at ease without noticing nature flashing its bright light in our eyes and calling out. How many men are able to say they notice nature as they go through their routine undertakings? The quote, “all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence” (Emerson 220) taken by Emerson is a perfect explanation to just how many people (and how often) do we truly experience nature so that we feel this sense of great reverence? In an increasingly technological, text-oriented culture, our experiences of nature are often mediated by words