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“我不停地说:‘我要做个博物学家’。”这是爱默生(Ralph Wal-do Emerson,1803—1882)的肺腑之言。爱默生享誉当时的美国文坛,是其中当之无愧的精神领袖,可是他的精神之源是什么呢? 大自然。这一点爱默生已在他的两部关键作品《自然》与《美国学者》里做了鞭辟入里的阐发。但是,无论读《自然》,还是念《美国学者》,我们看不见蝶蛹蚕,听不到火烈鸟,摸不着三叶形獐耳细辛。我们读到的是硬邦邦的雄辩,看不见精神形成的自然过程。这个精神形成的自然过程,爱默生几乎全部珍藏在他的日记里了。难怪他把自己写了大半辈子的日记亲切地称为“储蓄所”。《爱默生日记选》(Selected Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson)选自《诺顿自然作品读本》。
“I kept saying: ’I want to be a naturalist’. ” This is the heart of Ralph Wal-do Emerson (1803-1882). Emerson reputation at the time of the American literary world, which is a well-deserved spiritual leader, but his spiritual source is what? Nature. Emerson, for his part, has made a splash in his two critical works Nature and American Scholars. However, whether we read “Nature” or read “American Scholars,” we can not see the chrysalis silkworm, the flamingo can not be heard, and the trilobata roe asarum can not be touched. What we have read is an eloquent eloquence that we can not see the natural process of spiritual formation. Emerson is almost entirely in his diary in this natural process of spiritual formation. No wonder he affectionately referred to his “diary” as his diary for most of his life. Selected Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson was selected from Norton’s Natural Works Reader.