Tag: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The creation of beauty is art,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836 in a slim volume called Nature. The Emerson quote provides the perfect introduction to the subject of Roger Scruton’s BBC documentary “Why Beauty Matters.” Scruton is a well-known British philosopher and author most recently of Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. In the film Scruton tells us, “there is all…