... grows and develops. The illusion that both are separate is a misconception that Walt Whitman seeks to rectify through the sixth poem by stating that "all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses" (Line 37). Similarly, Durand uses the image of a continuous river, a path, providing life to a ... again, shares striking similarities to Durand's painting, in that the lifeblood of water given to the trees causes them to grow. And as the seasons change, and the trees lose the leaves that signify their vitality, nature enters a new stage in its continuous circle of life. In both works ... it ...

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... against the orthodoxy of Calvinism and the rationalism of the Unitarian Church, developing instead their own faith centering on the divinity of man and nature. Transcendentalism derived some of its idealistic concepts from romantic German philosophy notably that of Immanuel Kant, and from such English ... with a wonder known to few people. Nature's purpose was clear to Emerson: "All the parts incessantly work into each other's hands for the profit of man" and "the endless circulation of divine charity nourish man." Nature's beauty comes through "the plastic power of the human eye" which ...

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