Two crucial things happened to Emerson on that tour of Europe.The first one is that he found in a garden in Paris:I am moved by strange sympathies, I say continually: I will be a naturalist.' Writing in his journal that "l feel the centipede in me, the cayman, carp, eagle, and fox,Emerson's ( 1 ) was that nature is in us, a part of us, and not just its higher forms, but in all its grotesqueries and wildness.The second thing that happened on that tour, was that Emerson met the English romantic poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William ( 2 ), and found them rather ordinary, dry and conservative men. The insight that Emerson drew from this, was that if great men could be so ordinary, why should not ( 3 ) men be great? As he would write a few years later, meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty, to accept the views which Cicero, Locke, and Bacon have given. Forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries. When they wrote these books. Emerson had found two ideas that would guide his life's work.That man and nature are ( 4 ) and that everyone can recognize that they are a ( 5 ) significant human being.