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This is another picture i had took when i was going some place and this picture shows that the road would never end and i would keep on going where the road had taken m. This is the same thing for people who are self-reliant and who are trying to go places but they would amke their own road and not take a road that had already been constructed by someones they would make their own road.

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"‘Selfie’-reliance: The word of the year is the story of our individualism"- by Dan Zak

In this article it is talking about self-reliance is being used today as the form of selfies. The article is saying that selfies are a form of self-reliance and a way to express yourself through that one picture.

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"FAST CAR" by Tracy Chapman

" maybe together we can get somewhere, any place is better starting from 0 and got nothing to lose, me myself got nothing to prove"

In this song he is talking about how he wants to go somewhere in his fast car. Anywhere he would start form zero and start transcending with himself and go places, so that he could see how the world really is from his perspective and not form other's perspective. That is why he wants to start from zero because that is even Thoreau started from.

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" The only way to have a friend is to be one" - Emerson.

What Emerson is saying is that is people want to have friends they first have to be one to other people. That is one way people would actually talk to you want you to be their friend in the long run. For example when Thoreau went to live in the woods he ahd found out that nature was being his friend and that he wanted to be its friend in the woods and it helped him transcend in the woods.

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This is what the end result of transcending looks like and what Thoreau was being portrayed as. The eyeball shows that the person has achieved the over-soul and and stripped of everything else. What the eyball is trying to say is that this what will happen once you taken the steps of transcendalsim and how you would have nothiing but two legs to move and and all seeing eyeball with a hat walking through the woods.

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"This world is but a canvas to our imagination" Thoreau.

What thoreau is trying to say in this qoute is that in order for us to see how the world runs we would have to use our imagination and start drawing out how we would want to see the world in this type of form and try to be non-conformity about our imagination and just look at the world with our own eyes and not by other people's eyes and be proud of what we would draw.

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What this man is talking about is that they started to chase a group of people for a study to find out what, what makes a good life. They start interveiwing these people and even start goingg into there houses to find get there answers. First they had found out what makes a relationship good ad they said that it was the social interactions and that lioness kills the person from within.

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What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness | Robert Waldinger | TED

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This picture was taken when my family were going to Disney. Looking out of the window i was just amazed of how the sky was clearing up and that the road taking us somewhere else.

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In this poem called song of the open road it talks about the main concepts of transcendentalism. This poem mostly talks about the over-soul and how he plans on achieving it and that he needs to take a road that is empty and not one that is made and talks about nature and it mostly helps him live in his life and is very essential to his health.

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Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman | Poetry Foundation

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In this podcast this man talks about the ideals of Thoreau and how he constantly tells tells everyone to wake up. It also talks about how Thoreau went to the woods on purpose to learn what you need to survive in life and not what you want to live. For example he talks about how people should throw away there iphones and focus on living.

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A Wild & Disobedient Life

Henry David Thoreau, on his 200 th birthday, is an American immortal who got there the hard way - against the grain of his town and his times. By now he's the heroic non-conformist who modeled his brief life on religious convictions: that every human being has an original relation with divine spirit, and that on earth a man must become a majority of one. So he made a dissenting record living apart, and walking the woods more like a Native American, he felt, than a Yankee. Never to church, never married, never voted and didn't pay his taxes. He talked to the trees as almost-people, and he caressed the fish in his stream like almost-children. Manly and able "but rarely tender," he won Emerson's obituary praise that flatters us, too: "no truer American existed," Emerson said, than Henry Thoreau. The prophet of Concord is our subject this hour on Open Source.

We begin with Thoreau's bicentennial biographer Laura Dassow Walls, visiting this week from the University of Notre Dame. There's news and insight in her book that's drawing high praise already. She shares with us how her life first intersected with Thoreau's:

I was a teenager. I was learning girl culture of 1970 and conformity and trying to figure out how to get along and worried about future and what college to go to what kind of job I could have - what kind of a job could a woman have. And they were limited. So, for instance, secretarial work was still something we were encouraged to think about. We took home Ec classes and thought of ourselves as homemakers. And here was this voice who said maybe you could go to the woods, maybe you could confront life, maybe you could figure out what it is to be alive.

The polymath and writer Lewis Hyde is a thoroughly modern transcendentalist, author of a treasured book-length essay, titled The Gift, about the making of art in a commercial society. In conversation this week we asked Lewis Hyde to speak of form and language-the almost King-James-Version Biblical rhythms in Walden- and whatever they tell the world about the scope of the project Thoreau set for himself:

So every time you can reduce your necessities you increase your freedom. And so, I think, it's worth in any life to pause and think which of the things you feel you have to do you really have to do because to the degree that you can discard some of them you increase the range of your own freedoms.

Susan Gallagher helps us examine the ways in which the issue of slavery underlies everything Thoreau's writing about: freedom, conscience and the crime inside the US Constitution.

Just as historians once underestimated the power of slavery in shaping American society, I think that they've underestimated the power of slavery in shaping Thoreau. He described slavery as an existential threat. He says 'right we are now in hell. We are losing our lives. And then John Brown comes along in 1859 and he says this is the best news that America has ever heard. John Brown is the first man who ever lived. And how did he live? By dying. You die for a purpose and you die because you refuse to wrestle the plank from the drowning man. You refuse to make your survival depend on the extinction of the liberty of another. Liberty is more important than life.'

Susan Gallagher teaches history and political science at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and she edits a vital, earthy Thoreau website at mappingthoreaucountry.org.

Our final guest, a natural-born, walking, talking Thoreauvian named Kevin Dann came up with a brilliant answer to our question: who, in our day, has taken up Thoreau's role? Dann is the author of Expect Great Things, a phrase and now a book that has the feel of the great man himself. There will be a prize for any listener who can top Dann's choice as the reincarnation of this fellow Thoreau.

This episode is the first in a 3-part series on Thoreau and American philosophy. Stay tuned for more transcendental radio and check in for updates on our Twitter page.
See a full transcript of this show on Medium.

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Henry David Thoreau, on his 200 th birthday, is an American immortal who got there the hard way - against the grain of his town and his times. By now he's the heroic non-conformist who modeled his brief life on religious convictions: that every human being has an original relation with divine spirit, and that on earth a man must become a majority of one.

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" DO OT GO WHERE THE PATH MAY LEAD, GO INSTEAD WHERE THERE IS NO PATH AND LEAVE A TRAIL".

This is quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson and what he is trying to say is that when you trying to achieve a goal don't do the same thing that someone did, go and reach it by your own methods and not by someone else. This is how a person can truly transcend by being a nonconformity type of person and just let go of how other people think and do. That is how Emerson got to teach people at Harvard.

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This image is portraying what transcendentalism is all about and what you are trying to get form transcending. The thing that this image is saying is that once you start living in the woods or start taking the first step to transcending will eventually become one with nature and start having self-reliance and not care what society has to say about them because they cant be moved by what they have to say about them and this is the end result.

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"Blowin in the wind" by Bob Dylan

"how many roads must man walk down before you can call him a man".

In the song "Blowin in the wind" Bob Dylan asks the question about what does a man need to do achieve the over soul. What he means is that a man needs to take a particular road to get the over-soul and get higher position in there life and wants to bet a higher knowledge and start the process to transcendence.

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"The ’Splainer: What is Transcendentalism?"

This is an article talking about transcendentalism. It talks who Thoreau was, it talks about how it was his 200th birthday. This article talks about the main goal of transcentalism and how Thoreau was tryng to achieve the over- soul. It also talks about his book "Life in the woods" and they first heard about what transcendentalism was and what Thoreau was trying to do with living off the grid and what he trying to teach to other people in the world and people should have the knowledge of what he had done.

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"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it"

This is a quote from Thoreau talking about how if you want anything you are going to have to sacrifice other things for it. What this means is that if people want to transcend in there lives they are going to have sacrifice other worldly things like they are going to have separate themselves form things like work, electronics, etc. In the book " the night Thoreau spent in jail" he had said that people are slaves of there work like they have to sacrifice there entire day or time to getting up in the morning to make some money.

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"EARTH SONG" by Michael Jackson

"Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores"

"Earth song" by Michael Jackson shows how the earth used to look and how it looks now and the impact of humans caused it to change form. wars have messed up peoples lives like in a town it showed it was devastated from a war that broke out. It also showed what would happen if humans would stop fighting and it would be better. also it showed how people dont even leave the environment alone like for example it showed how people cut down trees and how they kill animals like elephants and how other people also start to suffer from the after effects. It also talks about how people the take advantage of the earth and dont realize how bad they are hurting the earth.

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Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Official Video)

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This image is what Thoreau was trying to embrace when was in the woods. He wanted to appreciate the beauty of nature and wanted to free himself and was just aiming for the over-soul. in order to achieve this he had to live off the grid and isolate himself from the rest of the world. The over-soul was the main goal for any transcendentalist who was trying their best to imitate Thoreau's methods and live off the grid.