“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough…” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

Presents nature as a place of renewal beyond the burdens of age · Essay, Nature (1836)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

About Ralph Waldo Emerson

25 May 1803–27 April 1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 25 May 1803 and dead in Concord, Massachusetts, on 27 April 1882, became one of the defining voices of nineteenth-century American literature. He was at once a poet, essayist, lecturer, editor, religious dissenter, and public moralist, though no single title…

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