Having the heart of a child /the innocence of a child is the only way to see nature. Yet he says that a true “[l]over of nature whose inward and outward senses are still adjusted each other” past childhood but “has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood” would only then begin commune with nature (Nature). Nature adopts man as its own as in the same sense as becoming one with nature. It comforts man into an elated spirit despite the hardships that face man outside of nature’s grace. For Emerson he feels “that nothing can befall [him] in life / which nature cannot repair”, because he submerges himself with nature. He transforms into an observer a “particle of God” by natures influence (Nature). With no body he moves freely through the world. However, nature did not grant him the ability to do so. It lies innate “in man or in a harmony of both” for those who like himself who seek to become a particle for the slightest. In the end the experience is a reflection of “the colors of the spirit” and it becomes less when crowded with unjust and dark
Having the heart of a child /the innocence of a child is the only way to see nature. Yet he says that a true “[l]over of nature whose inward and outward senses are still adjusted each other” past childhood but “has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood” would only then begin commune with nature (Nature). Nature adopts man as its own as in the same sense as becoming one with nature. It comforts man into an elated spirit despite the hardships that face man outside of nature’s grace. For Emerson he feels “that nothing can befall [him] in life / which nature cannot repair”, because he submerges himself with nature. He transforms into an observer a “particle of God” by natures influence (Nature). With no body he moves freely through the world. However, nature did not grant him the ability to do so. It lies innate “in man or in a harmony of both” for those who like himself who seek to become a particle for the slightest. In the end the experience is a reflection of “the colors of the spirit” and it becomes less when crowded with unjust and dark