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wilderness
“Although deism and the sublime sprang in large part from the Enlightenment, they contributed to a quite different conception of nature. “Romanticism” resists definition, but in general it implies an enthusiasm for the strange, remote, solitary, and mysterious. Consequently in regard to nature Romantics preferred the wild. Rejecting the ( Read more... ) -
mastery of existence
“..Other animals are born, seek mates, forage for food and die. That is all. But we humans - we think - are different. We are persons, whose actions are the results of their choices. Other animals pass their lives unawares, but we are conscious. Our image of ourselves is formed from our ingrained belief that consciousness, selfhood and free will ( Read more... ) -
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“I linger yet with Nature, for the night hath been to me a more familiar face than that of man; and in her starry shade of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn’d the language of another world.”
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If the light takes us. . .
Take me, and enslave me. I want nothing more than to traverse these forgotten worlds with you.
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