Emerson recalled his response to an "ardent missionary"... “Other world!” answered Emerson, “there is no other world, God is one and omnipresent: here or nowhere is the whole fact” (LL 2:269). In reading nature, Emerson was not climbing up and out of Plato's cave into blinding light.(That's God spelled n-a-t-u-r-e)
Emerson and Environmental Ethics, Susan L. Dunston, Lexington Books 2018
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