Nature: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Nature, credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Nature, by Ralph Walso Emerson. Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Recent advances in zoology, botany, and geology confirmed Emerson's intuitions about the intricate relationships of Nature at large. The publication of Nature is usually taken to be the watershed moment at which transcendentalism became a major cultural movement. Henry David Thoreau had read "Nature" as a senior at Harvard College and took it to heart. It eventually became an essential influence for Thoreau's later writings, including his seminal Walden. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Nature
• Author credits: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 1:52:29

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• nature

Track guide

1. 0 - Introduction — 4:25
2. 1 - Nature — 9:24
3. 2 - Commodity — 3:36
4. 3 - Beauty — 13:19
5. 4 - Language — 17:13
6. 5 - Discipline — 20:38
7. 6 - Idealism — 22:28
8. 7 - Spirit — 6:17
9. 8 - Prospects — 15:11

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