Emerson expresses that if a man wants to be alone he should look at the stars and he will know that he is separate from whatever else could be around him. Emerson states that when looking at the stars it is as if the atmosphere doesn't exist and it is only the man and the presence of something heavenly. He mentions that if the stars only came out once in a thousand years people would talk about that night forever, so we are lucky that we get to be in the presence of them every night.
