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    Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future
    Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future
    Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future
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    Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future

    By Chris Highland

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    Carry Ralph Waldo Emerson’s wisdom with you in this inspirational guide that features 60 of his most insightful quotes.

    As an “adventuring heretic,” Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) challenged comfortable assumptions about nature, scientific understanding, and divine intelligence. The Sage of Concord’s writings continue to inspire and influence new generations of thinkers and readers as he bridges the wild places of the heart and intellect.

    In Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson, editor Chris Highland pairs 60 Emerson passages with inspirational quotes from historical and contemporary luminaries as diverse as Margaret Fuller, the Dalai Lama, and Jack Kerouac. Take this pocket-size guide with you on backpacks, nature hikes, and camping trips. Let Emerson’s words enrich your experience as you ponder the wilderness from riverbank, mountaintop, or as you relax beside your campfire.

    Inside you’ll find:

    • 60 inspiring Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
    • Selections of text from other philosophical minds
    • Short excerpts for convenient reading

    This portable sampler of 60 selections—from 30 years of Emerson’s writings—reveals the essence of Emerson’s spiritual vision. Journey into the mind and heart of this great 19th century author, poet, and philosopher whose writings remain relevant and inspiring today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilderness Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2010
    ISBN9780899976136
    Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future

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      Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Chris Highland

      Meditations of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Into the Green Future

      1st EDITION April 2004

      2nd printing April 2006

      3rd printing August 2008

      Copyright © 2004 by Chris Highland

      Foreword copyright © 2004 by Wesley T. Mott

      Front cover and frontispiece portraits courtesy Joel Myerson

      Collection of Nineteenth-Century American

      Literature, University of South Carolina

      Other cover photos copyright © 2004 by Chris Highland

      Interior photos, except where noted, by Chris Highland

      Book and cover design by Larry B. Van Dyke

      ISBN 978-0-89997-352-4

      UPC 7-19609-97352-2

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Published by: Wilderness Press

      1345 8th Street

      Berkeley, CA 94710

      (800) 443-7227; FAX (510) 558-1696

      info@wildernesspress.com

      www.wildernesspress.com

      Visit our website for a complete listing of our books and for ordering information.

      Cover photos: Emerson at age 51 (1854); Glen Almond—Highlands, Scotland; Fern fronds; Sunrise over Blue Ridge Mountains—South Carolina

      Frontispiece: Emerson at age 70 (1873)

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      Contents

      Foreword

      by Wesley T. Mott

      Introduction

      Emerson Selection, with Source and Companion

      1 I Will Be a Naturalist — Charles Darwin

      Journals (1833)

      2 The Noble Earth — David Brower

      Journals (1834)

      3 Mellow Beauty — Anna Ione

      Journals (1834)

      4 Natural Relations — Martin Buber

      Journals (1836)

      5 Face to Face — Margaret Fuller

      Nature (1836)

      6 To Go Into Solitude — The Dalai Lama

      Nature (1836)

      7 On This Green Ball — Zoroaster

      Nature (1836)

      8 Follow Your Streams — Mechthild

      Nature (1836)

      9 My Beautiful Mother — Chief Seattle

      Nature (1836)

      10 Worship — Meister Eckhart

      Nature (1836)

      11 By Your Hands — Henri Nouwen

      Nature (1836)

      12 The Secret of Nature — Catherine of Siena

      Journals (1837)

      13 Humanity Thinking — Marcus Aurelius

      The American Scholar (1837)

      14 This Web of God — The Tao

      The American Scholar (1837)

      15 From One Root — George Herbert

      The American Scholar (1837)

      16 Currents of Warm Life — Oscar Romero

      The American Scholar (1837)

      17 World Enough For Us — St. Monica

      Journals (1838)

      18 The Wild Apple Bloomed God — Black Elk

      Journals (1838)

      19 Into the Green Future — Henry David Thoreau

      Journals (1838)

      20 Breath of Life — David Masumoto

      An Address (1838)

      21 Religion of Joy — Martin Luther King, Jr.

      An Address (1838)

      22 My Garden is Nearer — Henry Miller

      Journals (1839)

      23 I Can Hardly Believe It Exists — Tim McNulty

      Journals (1840)

      24 In the Presence of Nature — Rumi

      Journals (1840)

      25 Where One Ray Should Fall — Hildegard of Bingen

      Self-Reliance (1841, first series of essays)

      26 Wood-life — Theodore Roethke

      Self-Reliance (1841)

      27 All Things Are Made Sacred — John Shelby Spong

      Self-Reliance (1841)

      28 Roses Are Roses — Friedrich Nietzsche

      Self-Reliance (1841)

      29 No Other Footprints — Navaho

      Self-Reliance (1841)

      30 To Beg a Cup of Water — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

      Self-Reliance (1841)

      31 Higher Prayer — Jack Kerouac

      Self-Reliance (1841)

      32 My Giant — Hans Christian Andersen

      Self-Reliance (1841)

      33 Path from the Heart — Thich Nhat Hanh

      Journals (1841)

      34 Lowly Listening — Søren Kierkegaard

      Spiritual Laws (1841)

      35 The Passion — Marguerite Porete

      Love (1841)

      36 Shelter — Mother Teresa

      Friendship (1841)

      37 We Are a Stream — Sirach

      The Over-Soul (1841)

      38 Without a Bell — Mundaka Upanishad

      The Over-Soul (1841)

      39 By the Same Fire — Vincent van Gogh

      The Over-Soul (1841)

      40 The Heart of All — Yehudah Zevi

      The Over-Soul (1841)

      41 Circle Within Circle — Vivekananda

      Circles (1841)

      42 Immersed in Beauty — Mahatma Gandhi

      Art (1841)

      43 Daily Bread — Jesus of Nazareth

      Journals (1843)

      44 Waiting For a Poet — Robert Burns

      The Poet (1844, second series of essays)

      45 Toys — Heraclitus

      The Poet (1844)

      46 Gates of the Forest — Walt Whitman

      Nature (1844)

      47 To Nestle in Nature — Gerard Manley Hopkins

      Nature (1844)

      48 The Most Ancient Religion — Karen Armstrong

      Nature (1844)

      49 Beauty Breaks in Everywhere — Nahid Angha

      Nature (1844)

      50 The City of God — Saul of Tarsus

      Nature (1844)

      51 Proteus — Bernd Heinrich

      Nature (1844)

      52 The Young of the World — John Steinbeck

      Nature (1844)

      53 Encamped in Nature — John Muir

      Nature (1844)

      54 Not Near Enough — Sandokai

      Nature (1844)

      55 Tickled Trout — The Qur’an

      Nature (1844)

      56 A Present Sanity — The Buddha

      Nature (1844)

      57 Save the Present Moment — Shurli Grant

      Journals (1848)

      58 Sweeter Rivers Silent — Rebecca Lawton

      Journals (1856)

      59 Deep Green Leaves — Malcolm Jones

      Journals (1862)

      60 I Am Still at Home — The Dalai Lama

      From the poem Walden

      Afterword — Ralph Waldo Emerson

      From the poem Good-Bye

      Sources

      Photo Credits

      Foreword

      A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him, wherever he goes.

      ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

      Spiritual Laws

      The reputation of Ralph Waldo Emerson is as high as it has been

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