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Henry David Thoreau would never want to see teachers forcing kids to spend hours of their time making presentations about him. He would want kids to find transcendentalism and a passion for it on their own. He wouldn't want to see them learning about it only because they have to. That's not the point of the movement. Transcendentalism is about doing what you want, thinking your own thoughts, and doing things not because you have to, but because you want to and feel that it is right. Forcing us to do this project on him instead of allowing us to spend the little time we don't spend in school finding ourselves and doing what makes us happy would deeply offend the man that this project is based around. Due to the aforementioned reasons, I refuse to do this project. I am keeping the 4 that I already did for the initial grade simply because the time I spent on them would have been wasted if I were to delete them.

Fail me if you want, but I feel that this better represents an understanding of the principles this project is about than if I were to find some poorly written quotes and low-quality pictures and make up some reason they fit into transcendentalism.

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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
I really like this quote because I personally believe that searching for what you want to have in your life will make it much less likely to come to you. This quote relates to transcendentalism, not only because the man who wrote it is a famous transcendentalist, but also because it supports the idea of simply doing things for the sake of doing them and not to try to gain something (in the case success) from what you're doing.

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I know that this piece shows buildings, and thoreau was all about nature, but the inspiration for the piece was the artist's desire to allow himself to get lost and truly be alone to be one with his thoughts, which I believe is a concept thoreau would support wholeheartedly

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Emerson Barrett, an American artist, philospher, and musician, drew all over the walls of his bedroom. He basically locked himself in his room for like a year when he was 15 and just covered his walls in art. This fits into the topic of transcendentalism because it is a wonderful example of nonconformity. Teenagers generally do not spend their time shut away drawing on their walls.

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This song is less an actual song and more just a reading of work by the drummer of the band's favorite philosopher. It is the closing of the band's second album, Boom Boom Room (side b). The general message of the song is making you think about dreams and what it would be like if we really were dreaming this life. To quote the song (after assuming you were able to dream any length of time),
"you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams,
you would fulfil all your missions,
you would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive.
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Finally you will dream the way you are now."
This fits into the topic of transcendentalism and the ideas of Henry David Thoreau because it is Alan Watts' own way of finding happiness. For him that is dreams. For Thoreau, it is nature, and transcendentalism is all about finding your own unique thing that brings you satisfaction in your ideas