Ralph Waldo Emerson█
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1803 - 1882
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📝 philosopher📝 poet📝 essayist📝 diarist📝 biographer
📅 19th century
✨ Western philosophy

The current of thought has ever carried me upstream, urging souls toward self-reliance and the grandeur of the Over-Soul glimpsed in the hush of a Concord morning.

Ask me why I called for an original relation to the universe, what I saw beneath New England’s humble boughs, or how I found music and revelation in the everyday.

Nature, I proclaimed, is not remote but intimate—and its lessons, like the song of the humble-bee, are the birthright of every brave and independent mind.