The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
on Beauty. From the essay Nature

#Emerson
#Transcendentalists
#October

the earth
laughs
in flowers!

-R.W. Emerson
#dailyhaikuprompt #flowers #quotes #transcendentalists

. . .#aesthetics, philosophy of gender, nature, science, literature, language ...they philosophized as #utilitarians, #Kantians, #Hegelians, #existentialists, #transcendentalists, #idealists, #positivists...they philosophized in a wide range of formats from academic articles to scholarly books...

Barn Raisings, Breakfast Programs, and the Spirit of American Socialism From frontier towns to the Poor People’s Campaign, a quiet tradition of collective care runs through American life.

We’ve seen American socialism before, but didn’t recognize it. From Shaker villages to the Poor People’s Campaign, America has a long, quiet tradition of collective care.

Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/hollypet...

#MLK #USHistory #Transcendentalists #Shakers #EarlyUSHistory #AmericanFrontier

Today's reading is "A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson" (1884) by James Thayer. It's about an 1871 trip to the west coast. The same trip is when Ralph Waldo Emerson & John Muir met.
#Transcendentalists #RWE #Emerson #JohnMuir #YosemiteNationalPark #ProtectOurLands #NPS