本书以爱默生1836年发表的开创性文章为主题，探讨了艺术家们互相影响的方式，同时呼吁大家珍惜和保护美国的自然景观。本书以经典的美国绘画和照片为插图，对《论自然》重新进行了评价，富有预见性。

拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生的《论自然》被广泛认为为美国景观传统奠定了基础，它敦促美国人重视自己国家的景观，并沉浸其中，以美国的自然为基础打造美国文化。在《论自然》首次发表近两百年后，这本由评论家和历史学家泰勒·格林撰写的书首次将一些艺术作品与爱默生的文章结合起来。格林还通过新的研究对《论自然》发表了自己的看法。本书以独特的方式将文章、艺术和思想融合起来，将吸引新的读者了解爱默生的著作，同时也为看待《论自然》对美国典籍的重要贡献引入了一个新的视角，展示了爱默生的文章至今仍对美国产生的影响。

Illustrated by classic American paintings and photographs, and accompanied with a prescient new appraisal, this stunning publication on Emerson's seminal 1836 essay is at once a meditation on the ways artists influence each other and a timely cri de coeur to cherish and preserve America's landscape.

Widely considered to be the foundational text of the American landscape tradition, Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature urges Americans to value and immerse themselves in their country's landscape, to build American culture from America's nature. Nearly two centuries after the original publication of the essay Nature by Emerson, this captivating book by critic and historian Tyler Green brings together a selection of artistic works in dialog with Emerson's text for the first time. Green also offers his own fascinating take on Nature through new research into how the essay was informed by Emerson's experiences of art and, in turn, how it informed American art well into the twentieth century. The result is a unique melding of essay, art, and ideas that will draw new readers to Emerson's writings, while also introducing a fresh perspective on a critical contribution to the American canon and showing what impact Emerson's text still has for the US to this day.