Born in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, lecturer, poet, and Transcendentalist thinker. Dubbed the "Sage of Concord," Emerson discussed his views on individualism and the divine ...

Norah Long as Nature and Tyson Forbes as Ralph Waldo Emerson during a 2017 production of ”Nature” at The Old Manse in Concord. Winslow Townson “In the woods, we return to reason and faith.

Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts By Mark Greif ...

“Self-Reliance.” Did the great Ralph Waldo Emerson get it wrong? ... And here came the brilliant transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, like a blazing star. Trust yourselves, he said.