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Johnny Depp

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Though actor Johnny Depp has been in multiple films and has access to millions of dollars and the "Hollywood lifestyle", in 2001 he chooses to spend his days with his wife and children in a small village in France. The family owns over thirty acres of land, and Depp says they do absolutely nothing. Depp and his family understand the transcendentalist tenant of living a simplified, rather than extravagant, life.

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"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone"
-Henry David Thoreau

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Bethany Hamilton

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The surfer Bethany Hamilton is a prime example over intuition over reason. Hamilton grew up surfing since a little age. After a tragic shark attack in 2003, the surfer was left without her arm. She was told that she would never be able to competitively surf again. Hamilton competed after her dad made her a special board. She won, in multiple competitions. She knew that even though it seemed impossible, if she worked and trained she could obtain her dream. The way she persevered is like Thoreau and Emerson's theories, she kept going even if it wasn't the most reasonable thing to do, and from that she succeeded.

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"What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate"
-David Henry Thoreau

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Wall-E

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The movie Wall-E came out in 2008. In the movie, Wall- E is the last robot left on planet earth. He spends his time cleaning up the earth. All of the humans left earth because it was too full of waste and garbage. They send another robot down to see if there is any signs of life so the humans could return. As the movie goes on they EVE finds a plant and the humans get to return to planet earth. The humans took the earth for granted and they took nature for granted, so it was destroyed. In my quote, Emerson explains that the stars are taken for granted, and if they were taken away then people would appreciate them more. Like in the movie Wall-E the earth is taken away and the people realize they have taken it for granted.

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"If the stars should appear one night in a a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Survivorman

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A TV show was made in 2004 about Les Stroud, a survivor man, who goes out into the wilderness on his own with a few materials, and a camera. He shows us he is self-reliance because he goes into the wild on his own and video records himself, with no one else around. He documents his struggles and overcomes obstacles in real survival situations. While he is surviving he even looks to appreciate the beautiful nature around him. I wouldn't call Les Stroud a man like Emerson or Thoreau, because he is in nature trying to survive, not necessarily appreciate nature. But, as he is surviving he learns to appreciate the little things in nature to help him be self-reliant.

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"But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Malala is a 17 year old Pakastani girl, who was the youngest person to ever win a nobel peace prize. She survived the assassination attempt from the Taliban. She spoke out on the importance of education, and the Taliban thought that women shouldn't be educated. Her bus was pulled over on her way home from school in 2012 and she was shot. Even after this  tragic event, she continued to speak out for womens education and education in general. She even wrote a book called "I am Malala". In the book she says "how dare the Taliban take away my education." Malala never conformed after the event. It made her an even stronger person.  She had the decision after the accident to cower in fear, or to stand out against the people who hurt her for her beliefs. She chose the less popular option and kept chasing her dream of education. If she was alive when Emerson and Thorea where alive, they would value her nonconformity way of life.

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Malala

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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson