Thanks for that ringing endorsement guys ... my reading list grows ever longer.

I'd made the Thoreau connection, but hadn't followe the line back to
Emerson yet.
Thanks again.

Ian

On 4/24/07, Heather Perella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>     [Ian]
> > Any one made strong connections with, or have strong
> > views about, Emerson before ?
>
>
>     Of course, because Emerson talks about Nature.
> Thoreau talked with and looked up to the guy, too.
> Thoreau's living philosophy mentions the need for a
> American philosophy, and Thoreau, as well as Emerson I
> believe, discussed the European (Thoreau's Concordians
> loving Paris things and news) and the Amerindian
> living without fences found in Walden Pond (and other
> topics thoroughly discussed also in 'Maine Woods'
> where Thoreau followed a Amerindian guide) and how
> these two ways merge in a unique U.S. lifestyle
> (Pirsig's boating west to east and eventually south on
> the Hudson).  Emerson discussed Man and Nature (that
> may have been a title to one of his books, too).
>
> woods,
> SA
>
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