Ralph Waldo Emerson born today in 1803. American essayist, poet and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. Here with his grandson Ralph Emerson Forbes.
Emerson was also a cultivator of pears.
This is his house in Concord Mass.
Emersons dentures!
His grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. Many key figures of the time were buried there. The Alcott family, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Thoreau a very close friend and associate of Emersons'. It is a lovely cemetery for strolling around in. Very atmospheric.Concord was a hotbed for new thinking about education, human beings' relationship to nature etc. It was a cradle of new philosophies that we can still gain from today. Forever learning and observing. A key concern for all living beings.
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