Read the passage below, and try to identify its main idea. "The production of a work of art throws a light upon the mystery of humanity. A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single. Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique. A leaf, a sun-beam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all, -- that perfectness and harmony, is beauty. The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms, -- the totality of natureNothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produceThus in art, does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works."
What relationship does Emerson describe between nature and art?
A. Art helps us appreciate the natural beauty that we would otherwise ignore.
B. Natural beauty is the inspiration for art.
C. Nature is much more beautiful than art.
D. Art is superior to nature because it is more beautiful.