"Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture. An enraged man is a lion, a cunning man is a fox, a firm man is a rock, a learned man is a torch. A lamb is innocence; a snake is subtle spite; flowers express to us the delicate affections. Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance; and heat for love. Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope." Here Emerson is talking about how we have created a world where the actual correspondence between things have become translated through words and language into an intangible or metaphorical relationship. Here he is saying that we ARE nature and that the natural and spiritual facts are one in the same. Without a human to analyze nature and without nature to allow the relations to happen neither exist. This is in some ways similar to Conway's attitude toward nature. He doesn't t see the animals he kills for food as any lesser than himself, when he kills the deer he gruesomely slashes his throat and later drenches himself in the blood of the animal, simply to show his appreciation and spiritual passion for his relationship with the other living objects around him. Emerson is doing the same by acknowledging the direct and actual correspondence between nature and human kind.