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ure common in the Western world today emerged mostly during the Romantic period. The Enlightenment had talked of "natural law" as the source of truth, but such law was manifest in human society and related principally to civic behavior. Unlike the Chinese and Japanese, Europeans had traditionally had little interest in natural landscapes for their own sake. Romantics stress the close relationship between man and nature. The subject of the relationship of Romanticism to nature is a vast one which can be touched on here. The old duke attracted by the wild life, in winter he shrinks with cold. But in this shrinking, old duke find out a true self. Nature has great power which makes the old man lives so well, just as he said below: Now, here feel we not the penalty of Adam, the season’s difference, as the icy fang and churlish chiding of the winter’s wind. Which when it bites and blows upon my body even till I shrink with cold, but this is no flattery: these are counselors that feeling persuade me what I am?” Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, Ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. I would not change it. (Huang Bikang, 2005,55) D. Pursuit of Emotions The Romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. In the Forest of Arden, the youth man Orlando, something in the heart is haunting him, which makes him miss someone everyday. He hangs little love poems on trees and brushes to express his love to Rosalind. At the same time the girl he loved is also in love with him, but he does know that. Romantics generally called for greater attention to the emotions as a necessary supplement to purely logical reason. Personified nature plays an important role in the pages of their works. Remembered childhood, unrequited love, and the exiled hero were constant themes. They discussed dreams, dramatic illusion, and Romantic sensibility, the process of creativity, the limits of Classicism and Reason, and the dynamic nature of the Imagination. In As You Like It, Rosalind talks that: Love is merely madness, and I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whispers are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel. He was to imagine me his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to woo me. At which time I would being a monish youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable ,longing and liking proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every passion something, and for no passion truly any thing ,as boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. (Huang Bikang, 2005, 46) In the forest, the idyllic country life shows out the theme of life: truth, kindness, beauty and love. In this comedy, Shakespeare opens a door to the life of the perfect point. And this life style was received and profound by the latter people. From the publication of lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 to the death of sir Walter Scott in 1832, a new movement appeared on the literary area .the essence of this new movement is the glorification of instincts and emotion, a deep renovation of nature and a flaming zeal to remark the world .Under the influence of the America and French revolutions, national