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Emerson values the exhilaration that can arise sometimes from our presence in nature.
Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Emerson, standing on top of "Dr. Ripley's hill," Emerson noted a moving sunset. (splendor, still light, radiant, a river journeying... to the green future).
And yet, the dictate of the hour is to forget all I have mislearned; to cease from man, and to cast myself again into the vast mould of nature.
See also Emerson's openness/focus on/insistence of "delight" and "gladness."
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