Emerson Theme 2

The theme of Emerson's essay "Nature" is the idea that man and nature share a special relationship in which both plant and man reflect emotions off of each other. Emerson sets up this statement by making the forest a place for all people to go, almost comparing it to a church. He says that forests are like the farms of god and that in the woods we return to not only faith but reason. Emerson feels so apart of nature when he's in the woods that he feels he becomes transparent and apart of his surroundings like a floating eye.