IL. Read the informational text below. Then, write an essay analyzing t using the moralist or reader-response approach. Place your output In your notebook or winter in the Northeast, I Think Emerson would and the lamantadons on a separate sheet of paper. about what 'we have 'endured to be misguided: "The inhabitants of the Open with a thesis statement that identifies your overall evaluation of the cilias suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year text, In terms of i's ability to comay or afirm a moral bolof (moralist] or to . . To the alla vive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty have personal significance to you as a reader (reader-response). and in the same feld it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never than before, and which shall nover be soon age Provide a suremary of the text that idenlifes its central ides and key supports, especially ones that are relevant to your reading. The close ceserver of nature sees a river in constant flux, even Follow up with evidence that supports your thesis statement, including when the river's water is frozen and everything appears to be static your answers to relevant guide questions used in your chosen long and unchanging for a time, Nature can reveal its beauly in all places Finish with a conclusion that mavisits your thesis statement. and at all times to the eye that knows how to look for it. We can hear Emerson wrangle with himself on this very point in the words of this Beauty in Nature joumal entry: "At night I went out into the dark and sow a givemering star and 7 dedie this world is so beautiful that I can handy ballave e heard a frog, and Nature seemed to say Well do not mose sulice? exists." The beauty of nature can have a profound effect upon our Here is a new scene, a new experience. Pander , Emerson, and not sorises, those gateways from the outer world to the inner, whether it Ake the foolish world, hanker after thunders and mublues and vast results in disbollof in is vary existence as Emerson notes, or feelings landscapes, the sea or Magara." such as awn, wonder, or amazement. But what is it about nature and the enities that make it up that cause us, tentimes unwillingly, to feel So If we're sympathetic to the idea that natur, or aspects of it or declare fat they are beautiful? are beauiful we might ask ourselves why we experience nature in this way. Emerson says that nature is baaunful because it is alive, moving. One answer that Emerson offers is that tha simple perception reproductive. In nature we observe growth and development in living of natural forms is a delight." When we think of beauty in nature, wa Rings, contrasted with the static or deteriorating state of the vast might most immediately think of things that dazzle the senses-the majority of that which is man-made. More generally, he writes: "We prominence of a mountain, the expanse of the sea, the unfolding of the ascribe beauty to that which . . has no superfluous parts; which ina of a flower. Often it is merely the perception of those things fact macily answers its and; which stands related to all things." He ctes which gives us pleasure, and this emotional or afeci've response on natural structured as lacking superfuities, an observation that in our part seems to be crucial to our exper beauty. So in a way gunoral has been confirmed by the advancement of biology there is a correlate here to the intrinsic value of nature, Emerson says: Furthermore, he says that whether laking about a human artifact or a "the sky Me mountain, the from, the animal, give us a delight in and for natural organism, any increase of ability to achieve its and or goal is an Increase in beauty. So in Emerson we might find the resources for Most oflen, It seems to me, we find these things to be beautiful seeing evolution and the drive to survive as a banutiful rather than an not because of something aise they might bring us a pinon of ugly process, governed by laws that band to increase reproductive furniture, say, or a'delicacy to be consumed-but because of the way fitness and that we can under "d through observation and inquiry, what we take to be that the forms of these things immediately strike us upon observation, And lastly, Emerson points le an individual and the rest of nature as a quality of the beautiful This In lack, one might even think that this experience of beauty is one of the bases for valuing nature-nature is valuable because it is beautrud. consists in the "power to suggest relation to the whole world, and so Ift the object out of a pitiful individually." In nature one doesn't come Emerson seems to think that beauty in the neural world is not across individuals that y indepercent from their limited to certain parts of nature to the exclusion of others, He writes environment, rather things are intimately interconnected with their that every landscape lies under "the necessity of being beautiful," and surroundings in ways that we don't fully understand. that "beauty breaks in everywhere. " As we slowly creep out of a long "Nothing is quato beautiof alone: nothing but is beauliu in the whole." This is the unified philosophy of nature that I set out to explicate in the first essay-nature is the source of truth, goodness, and beauty because of its intelligible structure, and because of its production of organisms that can recognize that structure, us. And this view of nature includes an inherent call to protect that which is true, good, and beautiful. These are the things that we as human beings are searching for, are striving after, and yet they're right in front of us if only we would liston with our ear to the earth. Although I've been advocating an approach to nature based on its intelligibility, we are far from tying down the giant that is nature with our minds. Emerson writes that "The perception of inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth." Although we shall continue to try to uncover nature's secrets, let us also continue to take pleasure in our immediate encounter with her. Let us continue to be awestruck, like the child on the seashore, or clambering up a tree. Le us hold onto that experience, and fight for the environment that makes possible, both for the child in each of us, and for those that come after us. Source: Michael Popejoy "Beauty in Nature." Harvard Sustainability, April 23, 2014 Accessed November 15, 2010. Approon harvard.educhews/beauty-nature marvel at and experience swe towards in these two ways. And us experience of the beautiful through the intellect may reinforce our attributing value to nature here as well, but a deeper kind of value, the intrinsic value I talked about in the laid essay. Here it is not only that nature is valuable because it is beautiful, but nature is beautiful because it possesses intrinsic value, grounded in its Inteligbia structure. Thus we see a dose parallel between goodness and beauty n nature; Win can find an objective basis for goodness and beauty in nature, namely its intelligible structure. but also see that noare is valuable and beautful for us, with the particular apparatus that nature has given us for navigating our way through the world. So that which is the basis of truth in nature and provides it with intrinsic value is also that which makes il beautiful. Emerson himself lies these three aspeds of nature into one package himself: The should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye