The Beauty of the Common
The view of nature and the beauty of nature is only seen when a man is in solitude. This is the time when the common things become beautiful, and in this, we are referring to nature and its components. When a man is far away from the life he is accustomed to living since childhood, this is when nature becomes important. Nature has a lot to offer to human including the sun, trees and a place to live while man has nothing to offer in return. Due to this, humans have to stay away from the society distractions so that they can appreciate what nature has to offer. Ralph Waldo Emerson argued that when the mind of a human is prepared to study, the mark of wisdom is meant to see the miraculous in common. With this he meant that humans appreciated nature when they are in need and that is the time they can see its beauty. Nature is beautiful, and its beauty is distinct despite the change of period.
Nature according to Emersion was divided into four uses which included commodity, language, beauty, and discipline. Out of the four uses, human appreciate nature for its beauty because of what can be seen they can see. The beauty of nature is not always visible since they can only recognize it when they are in need. Humans are always distracted by the demands of the world which prevent them from seeing the beauty of nature, but when they are away from flaws and distractions of the society, they become engaged in the world of nature. Emersion further explained that a man could only engage with nature through solitude and this is the point when one understands the provisions if nature to human.
Nature is common in human, but its usefulness cannot be reciprocated. All that nature does is for the benefit of a human. From the sun, wind, rain, ice and all other components of nature, the common goal is to nourish man. The wind blows seeds and sows them; the ice condenses into rain the rain feeds these plants, plants feed animals as well as humans. This is an indication that nature was meant to sustain human and animals while humans don’t see its need due to worldly demands. In addition to this, nature leads to innovations that assist human survival as well as the common society.
Carlyle in the age of machinery explained how nature with its undivided might teaches humans the art of adapting means to ends. He argued that things were no longer done by hands because the old modes of working were being replaced by inanimate speedier machines. The knowledge of these machines was also from nature then the machines were seen to be miraculous due to their function. The human wisdom converted what the nature provided to a more efficient machine that made work easier. From the experience of machinery, humans appreciated the beauty of what was initially seen as common.
There is beauty in nature and all that is in it. Everything provided by nature has its individual use, and all of them are meant for human sustainability. From the plants, the sun, the stars, humans find the beauty in each of them because of the benefits obtained from each of them. Traditional people crafted stones and came up with machines that made work easier than the way they used hands. Nature is God-given thus the reason Emerson found a spiritual relationship between nature and beings. Beside this, people interacted with their spirits through nature and accepted the spirits as Universal Beings. This made them appreciate nature since it provided them with ideas and unseen beings that became part of the surroundings.
The beauty of nature is believed to have significant effect on human senses. The value given to nature is because of its beauty and not necessarily anything else that can be provided by nature. Thus, the earlier humans observed nature and devised machines that were used to make work easier during that period. Similarly, the challenges posed by nature trigger human into thinking the best way the challenges can be solved.
Nature is beautiful from the pleasure and emotions created when one is alone observing it. Creativity follows after one identifies important components of nature that can be improvised to a better thing. Nature is common because it entails our surrounding and all that is in it is alive, moving and reproductive hence beautiful. When nature is compared to what human beings make, the difference is vivid because what is made by a human is static while nature offers living things.
Beauty is all over, and it can be said to be individual perception. Whatever I may find beautiful may not be beautiful to others. For a transcendentalist, everything in nature seemed beautiful, and they improvised things from nature to more useful machines. In the current generation, people lack the meaning of nature where it is destroyed to offer living areas for humans. The replacement of natural nature with a set of beautiful constructions have changed the view of the beauty of the common unlike during transcendentalism