1. "To go into solituede, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society."- Here emmerson is stating that to truly become one with nature, or the natural way a person should act, which is as an idividual. A person needs to give up their material possesions as well as becoming an individual.
2. "The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inacessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence." - When one is truely an individual, the world is humbling.
3. "We mean the integrity of impression made by manifold natural objects. It is this which distinguishes the stick of timberof the wood-cutter, from the tree of the poet." -If a person takes nature, and uses it as a tool for some other purpose than nature, that piece of nature that they took, loses its magic.
4. "The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood." -A true individual can see the world as they wish, either in the eyes of a child, with an imagination, or the eyes of an adult.
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