4 The most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the . . . most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. . . . While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854Which statement shows how this excerpt is an example of transcendentalism in the early-to-mid 1800s?

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