Saturday, May 19, 2012 - Erie PA
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Full Moon Rising, Caballo Lake State Park, NM, May 5, 2012
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Erie PA
Walmart Supercenter Store #2278, 1825 Downs Dr, Erie, PA 16509 - (814) 864-7330
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- Good signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Proficiency in Knowledge of the World
There are all degrees of proficiency in knowledge of the world. It is sufficient, to our present purpose, to indicate three. One class lives to the utility of the symbol; esteeming health and wealth a final good. Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol; as the poet, and artist, and the naturalist, and man of science. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified; these are the wise men. The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception. Once in a long time, a man traverses the whole scale, and sees and enjoys the symbol solidly; then also has a clear eye for its beauty, and lastly, while he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon, reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.
Essay VII, Prudence Ralph Waldo Emerson