In reading I Become a Transparent Eyeball by Ralph Waldo Emerson, there was a lot of the description of nature and when humans are able to take it all in and absorb its beauty they beauty. One can tell that Emerson finds that the love of nature is very important. On can find themselves in the midst of nature to be young in spirit and able to be one with nature. Emerson says it this way, “I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me,” (eyeball). The metaphoric transparent eyeball is referring to how he changes into just an absorber and not a transmitter. If one goes some where and just stops thinking about their life for a minute or to just to look at the beauty of the world, one might find that there is more to life than just oneself. That is what Emerson does. When he says that he becomes nothing, but sees all, that means that he takes himself out of his worries and just takes in the nature that surrounds him. He is able to find his life is very insignificant compared to the entire world, but if he consumes all of the beuty of nature than he may be able to find more about himself, “man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature,” (eyeball). This is why it is very important to go out and seek a different surrounding than what one is used to, and just take in the beauty of nature and humans entwined in harmony.
In reading The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson, one finds that Emerson believes that man is one person that has been divided up by work and social status. He believes that man should do what he needs to do for survival, and then take some time to learn about other jobs otherwise a man is no longer a man, but a farmer or lawyer, “Man is not a farmer, or professor, or an engineer, but he is all — In the divided or social state, these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aids to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his. The fable implies, that the individual, to posses himself, must sometimes return from his own labor to embrace all the ther labors,” (scholar). In many cases, people grow up in one environment, and they select a job that fits what that environment calls for. They work close to home and they never are able to experience new things. If a man blows the fields every day of his life, he becomes what one calls, a farmer. It is important to go out of ones community to find the way other people live, in order to find out what one really wants their life to be like. Exploring new horizons is nescessary in order to truely know what to do in ones life and where to be. When one has one idea of what life can be, they have no choice. When one travels and sees how humans interact in different environments, then one has a choice of which environment they care to live in.
