In this episode, Simon sets the scene for our upcoming Walled Garden meetup on Emerson’s call for us to experience the enlightenment that our ancestors felt. The passage read comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays on nature.  The poem read was from Simon’s own storehouse.  You can read the rest of the poems in that collection and listen to the album, Pairidaēza Suite, here: https://thewalledgarden.com/post/pair...  You can register for the meetup mentioned via this link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJck...  Fern Tree Gulley painting by Thomas Clark: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/col... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices