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"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep."

- Henry David Thoreau

This visual represents the awakening of oneself, initiating that one should always be awake from the rise of dawn and to the aspects of nature, instead of the aspect of machinery.

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"I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society."

- Henry David Thoreau

This visual exemplifies the tenet of Individuality and the traits of freedom that nature predominantly gives.

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"Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God."

- Henry David Thoreau

Nature tends to give oneself a more clear feeling and connection towards God, and creates a disappearance from cruel reality.

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"Nature is a sea of forms radically alike and even unique. A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, or the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all, — that perfectness and harmony, is beauty."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty in nature is compared to all of its characteristics, which matches its abstract of human nature and its perfectness, they lay upon their beauty in different forms upon themselves in the term of nature.

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"To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense... a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should always stick to their own thoughts and beliefs, this picture provides a visual representation of Individuality and how somehow should always find their own path instead of following someone else.

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In the poem "O Me! Oh Life!" (Walt Whitman), the author talks about how modernization in the new world has come to construct monstrosity for humankind and the welfare of society. In this poem, I was struck by how the author interprets society as faithless and foolish for what had been created, as it is true. As Whitman had advised us in the end, it made me feel empathetic in a way to know that we still have a chance of living a life with meaning and purpose.

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Following your passion, in which following your own heart and choices that you decide.

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In this song of life, my verse is to protect our world from the misconduct it receives, what i can do now is what counts for our future. I will become a Doctor, to not only heal, but to give and to teach people the actual needs of life, to experience nature, to help nature, and to nurture life how it is supposed to be cared for. I will help heal society by the means of living a fully transcendent life.

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-As the sun sets down, I'm on my way
-And as I look it is to say
-Nature as it seems is beautifully made
-One Quick look and I'm fulfilled
-To those that see have these chills
-A part of society it is not seen
-But once it is processed it is now clean
-That nature is beautiful with simplicity
-I have my part, and it is to care
-To keep our sacred nature without despair

(This is my art)

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What have we done to the world?
Look at what we've done
...did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth, these weeping shores
What about apathy?
What about natures worth?
What about the common man?
Can we set him free?
Do we give a damn?

- "Earth Song" By Michael Jackson

To care for nature is to become one with nature, paying less attention to its importance helps fade our existence to a transcendent life.

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Nature provides for every human being, it provides specialties to those who experience it, especially the ones who experience it alone.

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The True living of life is to experience what it offers, and in this example, it is a nature walk, the true beauty of it refreshes us mindfully and morally once it is taken in.

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Laying with nature can also be transcendent!

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My pathway to a world so green.

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8: Challenges to Living the Transcendental Life

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8: Challenges to Living the Transcendental Life

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Challenges to living a transcendental life would be the constant need of items, and money, which is so normalized in society today.

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While nature can sometimes be inordinate to this modern world, Transcendentalism teaches people to follow themselves and become traced to the world outside of society, as mentioned by Thoreau in his essay "Self-Reliance," quoting, "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

This visual represents humans in society who take part in transcendentalism, people who are individuals and are apart from society, they show fulfillment to transcend.