Oh Transcendentalism

I decided to choose the following lines from "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The eye is the best of artists. By the mutual action of its structure and of the laws of light, perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects, of what character soever, into a well colored and shaded globe, so that where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose, is round and symmetrical." I really like these lines because I think they are so true. The eye is the best artist and Emerson does a really good job of explaining why it is. After he says this he goes on to say that there is beauty even in a corpse. I think I like what he is saying here because I have never thought about it this way. I think he does a really good job of explaining how the eye sees things and how light affects how we see things. I think obviously reading anything that Emerson writes to understand it you have to read through it a couple of times, and I definitely had to here. But the line the eye is the best of artists jumped out at me immediately.