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the contrast between us and our house is more evi-
dent. We are as much strangers in nature as we
are aliens from God. We do not understand the
notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away
from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not
know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn
and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the
landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur,
a face of him? Yet this may show us what dis-
cord is between man and nature, for you cannot
freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are
digging in the field hard by. The poet finds some-
thing ridiculous in his delight until he is out of the
sight of men.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures. Contributors: Ralph Waldo Emerson - author. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Place of Publication: Boston. Publication Year: 1883. Page Number: 343.
    
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