What is the importance of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "Nature?" What message was Emerson trying to convey to his readers?

In
, Emerson lays out his conception of transcendental unity. Nature, or its comtemplation, is a
path towards unity with God. As he puts it, in the woods I become a transparent eye-ball; I am
nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or
particle of God. In other words, it is through the experience of Nature that one€˜s identity (or
mean egoism) is lost or merged with a kind of divine infinite, represented by Gods
creation. Emerson argues that this state is fundamentally non-rational; being in Nature in this
way is not about intellectual engagement or trying to figure out natural processes, but
instead is a kind of uncritical, poetic openness to beauty. 

Emerson argues
that this state is fundamentally non-rational; being in Nature in this way is not about
intellectual engagement or trying to figure out natural processes, but instead is a kind of
intuitive openness to beauty. This is why he says that...