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Emerson's Young America
Emerson's Young America

“America is beginning to assert itself to the senses and to the imagination of her children...”

Snapped on May 30, 2007• More in Emerson's "Young American"(1) Comment
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Early Internal Improvements Road Building
Early Internal Improvements Road Building

“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?”

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The Locomotive Creates American Sentiment
The Locomotive Creates American Sentiment

“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...”

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Connections To The Land
Connections To The Land

“The vast majority of the people of this country live by the land...”

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The Character of the Land
The Character of the Land

Emerson believes that the people carry the land they live by “in their manners and opinions.”

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Land As Resources
Land As Resources

“...boundless resources of their own soil.”

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Stamp Orchard
Stamp Orchard

My connection to the land...my first orchard. 

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Patriotism
Patriotism

“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it. or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism.”

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Americanizing Influence
Americanizing Influence

“...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.”

Snapped on May 30, 2007• More in Emerson's "Young American"(1) Comment
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The Land of the Laborer
The Land of the Laborer

“...America...the land of the laborer...”

Snapped on May 30, 2007• More in Emerson's "Young American"(0) Comments
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Country of the Future
Country of the Future

American land inspires and expresses “the most expansive and humane spirit...”

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Garden
Garden

“How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.”

Snapped on May 30, 2007• More in Emerson's "Young American"(2) Comment
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The Home of Man
The Home of Man

“One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience, that here, here in America, is the home of man.”

Snapped on May 30, 2007• More in Emerson's "Young American"(0) Comments
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Self-Reflective
Self-Reflective

“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.

Snapped on May 30, 2007• More in Emerson's "Young American"(0) Comments
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