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"Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.
Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith.."
-From "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson; 1836
What phrase from paragraph 3 is an example of something that is being described as "perennial"?
Answer: perpetual youth
Step-by-step explanation:
In this context, the word 'perennial', used to describe the festival that is nature, means that something is continuing, permanent.
Youth is described as perpetual, a synonym of perennial, to explain that in nature, humans, and animals, such as a snake, become young forever, 'always a child,' meaning that they are pleased in that environment and can never get tired of it.