“America is beginning to assert itself to the senses and to the imagination of her children...”
“Who has not been been stimulated to reflection by the facilities now in progress of construction for travel and the transportation of goods in the United States?”
“Not only is distance annihilated, but when, as now, the locomotive and the steamboat, like enormous shuttles, shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent...and bind them fast in one web...”
“The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land...”
Emerson believes that the people carry the land they live by “in their manners and opinions.”
“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it. or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism.”
“...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.”
“...America...the land of the laborer...”
American land inspires and expresses “the most expansive and humane spirit...”
“How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.”
“One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience, that here, here in America, is the home of man.”
“It is the country of the Future....it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.” Represent how America can remain the country of the Future...today.
