---From "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "...few adult persons see nature." This is a true statement. Emerson is trying to explain that perhaps not all people stop to take the time to enjoy all that is around them. Often times I feel that I do not get to really see and feel the nature around me because of a busy schedule or just plain inattentiveness.
---From "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "In the woods, is perpetual youth." Grief, calamity, and stress, for example, age us. If one were to live in the forest, he would find none of that. There is only yourself and the woodland creatures around you. Such activities in the woods such as the scuttling of chipmunks, for instance, could never bother a man, thus he stays young and happy forever, whereas the loudness of urban life could fill someone with negative feelings.
---From "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "'What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?'"
Here, Emerson is explaining that you do not have to follow the traditions of others, so long as your life is whole and has meaning and you have found yourself. The traditions of others have nothing to do with you, so long as you are self-reliant and you have your own free spirit and your own way of thinking.
---From "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "...truth is handsomer than the affection of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, -else it is none." You can be a seemingly good person by always saying "hello" and "thank you," but to be truly good ("goodness with some edge to it") you must have feelings behind everything you do. All actions of yours should be truthful and meaningful.
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