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A collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism. Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay Nature declared that understanding nature was the key to understanding God and reality, and laid the groundwork for transcendentalism. His legacy of boldly questioning the doctrine of his day and connecting with nature will resonate with today's readers in search of meaning and enlightenment. Essays include Nature (1836) and Emerson's first series, published in 1841: History , Self-Reliance , Compensation , Spiritual Laws , Love , Friendship , Prudence , Heroism , The Over-Soul , Circles , Intellect , and Art .

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) was renowned as a lecturer and author. His ideas on nature, philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many other writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.

A soul-satisfying collection of 12 essays by the noted philosopher and poet who embraced independence, rejected conformity, and loved nature.

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Sometimes referred to as 'the grand old man of science', Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a naturalist, evolutionary theorist, and friend of Charles Darwin. In this study of tropical flora and fauna, he takes the reader on a tour of the equatorial forest belt - the almost continuous band of forest that stretches around the world between the tropics. There, chameleon-like caterpillars alter the colours of their cocoons, parasitical trees override their hosts with spectacular aerial root systems, and some of the most pressing questions of Victorian evolutionary science arise: how do animals and plants come to be brightly coloured? Can their adaptations provide clues about past geological eras? And was Darwin wholly correct in his theory of sexual selection? First published in 1878, Wallace's book is a skilfully written reflection of contemporary naturalism, still highly readable and relevant to students in the history of science.

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MR. WALLACE tells us that the luxuriance and beauty of tropical nature is a well-worn theme and that there is little new to say about it, and yet he thinks that none have as yet attempted to give a general view of the phenomena which are essentially tropical or to determine the causes and conditions of those phenomena. Indeed many very erroneous ideas are commonly entertained about the charms of the tropics and about the brilliant tints of its flowers, and birds, and insects.

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