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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Beauty of the Everyday

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Ralph Waldo Emerson taught us about the presence of nature and something a little divine inside all of us; simultaneously helping usher in what was considered, "America's intellectual declaration of independence."

Emerson was a transcendentalist. A chief tenant of his belief system was that by transcending the influence of society and becoming completely self-reliant, a person could ...

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