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This video goes into further detail of Thoreau and Emerson. It talks about the true meaning, with the history behind it, how it become out of Self- Reliance. It also talks about how to transcend, become one with nature and break societal norms.

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Walt Whitman
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full
hands;
How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it
is any more than he.

I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful
green stuff woven.

Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,
Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we
may see and remark, and say Whose?

Or I guess the grass is itself a child. . . .the produced babe
of the vegetation.

Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow
zones,
Growing among black folks as among white,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the
same, I receive them the same.

And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them;
It may be you are from old people and from women, and
from offspring taken soon out of their mother's laps,
And here you are the mother's laps.

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old
mothers,
Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.

O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!
And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths
for nothing.

I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men
and women,
And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring
taken soon out of their laps.

What do you think has become of the young and old men?
What do you think has become of the women and
children?

They are alive and well somewhere;
The smallest sprouts show there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait
at the end to arrest it,
And ceased the moment life appeared.

All goes onward and outward. . . .and nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and
luckier.

This Poem goes into the deeper meaning. A child asks him what is grass, he doesn’t not know. It then goes into further detail of him finding him self, asking hard questions. revealing the true meaning of life.

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In this photo I had just hiked a mountain in Colorado. It was absolutely breathtaking. I was extremely sick, so I didn’t fully appreciate it then, but looking back at it, wow. As you walk up the mountain all you hear is the sounds of nature. You really get to become one with nature with us just awesome.

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This is my favorite picture on my camera roll. So I was on a mission trip in the Dominican Republic in this. You can really appreciate the sky and the trees and aspects of nature here. This can be described as  transcendental because it is about nature. Because I was serving God in this trip, it also plays into the idea that God is in everything.

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I love this quote by Thoreau because it really shows how many opportunities we have. We can be who we want to be, it is our decision. If we want something we need to go out and get it.

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This quote by Emerson says how the universe is in control. We don’t control life and what happens. We just need to trust nature and the universe and whatever happens is supposed to happen.

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This quotes shows the non conformist side, Emerson is trying to experiment and try new things in life rather than be like anyone else.

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This podcast talks about the idea of  transcendentalists and how they came about. It also talks about how history may repeat its self and this may happen again. The nonconformist may rise up.

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The Transcendentalists Are Coming!, Again

This week on Open Source, we're taking advantage of a sick-leave rerun to revisit the birthplace of the American mind a year after we first broadcast this show. The story of the Transcendentalists starts in five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts. And it launched American literature and poetry, the environmental movement, progressive politics, feminism, and new ideas about religion and education. Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, the Alcotts, and their friends and neighbors. The Transcendentalists are coming. What is the legacy of this American renaissance? What do these thinkers mean to you?

The Transcendentalist Ripple Effect

Check out a growing timeline of the Transcendentalist lives and legacies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott, in the tangled graphic below ( click here for full-size).

Orpheus at the Plough
Geraldine Brooks, The New Yorker
The novelist writes a short and poignant biography of Amos Bronson Alcott in The New Yorker.

Vindication
Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review
a review of Megan Marshall's Margaret Fuller: A New American Life.

Emerson's 'The Poet': A Circling
Sven Birkerts, Poetry Magazine
The critic and editor of AGNI writes on translating Emerson into today's language:

I should define the word, make clear how I mean it. To speak of soul is not, for me, to speak about religion; it is not to announce oneself as a church-goer, a born-again Christian, or anything of the kind. Soul, for me, is prior to religion. Religion recognized the idea and posited it as something that it could help save, but not as something that faith brought into being. Soul comes before. I think of it as the active inner part of the self, the part that is not shaped by contingencies, that stands free; the part of the "I" that recognizes the absurd fact of its being; that is not in any sense immortal, but that recognizes the concept of immortality and understands the desire it expresses; that is that desire.

Paul Harding (interview)
Tony Perez, Tin House
Our guest and friend, in interview with the literary journal, Tin House:

I adore the transcendentalists. Emerson is right at the top of my list. Thoreau is not too far behind. I also think of Hawthorne, Melville... even Wallace Stevens kind of comes out of that tradition. Emily Dickenson-Writers like that. Some people do think Tinkers has sort of an archaic feel, maybe just because it's set 90 to 100 years ago, and goes even further back. Some of that has to do with the fact that I like the idea of stripping away some of the more prominent distractions of current material culture, which I think can set up sort of a veil of white noise-It's difficult to see or hear somebody's mind.

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The Transcendentalists Are Coming!, Again

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This week on Open Source, revisiting the birthplace of the American mind. Five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts launched American literature and poetry, the environmental movement, progressive politics, feminism, and new ideas about religion and education. Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, the Alcotts, and their friends and neighbors.

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This article is about the idea of transcendentalism and what it means for society. It breaks down the idea of it all. The article shows how these people really thought.

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This image, like image 2 we are really able to see how nature is a part of us. To go deeper, we can see each part of nature, the grass, flowers , etc. grow onto and into this person, as if they are one or even the same.

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This image shows how Nature is with-in all of us, like how God is in all of nature and nature is a part of God. It shows how we all are united as one.

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“Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise”
Blackbird, by: The Beatles

This song depicts Transcendentalism showing how we can build ourselves back up from little, using an example of nature(a blackbird) to do so. My family always used to sing this song, and now i understand the true meaning. it’s a beautiful song.

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“I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world“

- What a Wonderful World , by: Louis Armstrong

This song talks about how amazing the earth we live on it and how blessed we should be to be able to live here. It shows how great every little piece of the earth is.

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The domestic transcendentalism of Fanny FernCarole Moses

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This article has another look on this idea. Says how nature is with in each of us. How these non-conformists tried something new. The world is bigger and has many different aspects and outlooks.

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This image depicts how beautiful the world is. The sun shines through the clouds entering our souls. I am one with Nature. Nature is one with me.

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This quote describes how you need to live in every moment and live life to the fullest. Awaken yourself through nature. Every moment counts, you need to break free from societal norms and become your own person.

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“Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right”

This song relates to transcendentalism because it talks about how nature relates to our lives. How the sun brings us joy and how winter makes you lonely. That’s the idea of  transcendentalism, being able to connect nature within our lives.

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