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Poem, Enosis By: Christopher Pearse Cranch (The First Poem)

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Poem, Enosis By: Christopher Pearse Cranch (The First Poem)

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This is a poem by Christopher Pearse Cranch all about transcendentalism and how everybody can be better than how they are currently with focus. The last stanza in the first section:

We, like parted drops of rain,

Swelling till they meet and run,

Shall be all absorbed again,

Melting, flowing into one.

This, to me is one of the best stanzas in the poem because of the metaphor used. Christopher compared human life to a drop of rain, and the process of a drop rain forming, coming down than reforming (the water cycle). What i took from this is that, like the drop of rain, life has a format it will go through and no matter what kind of details happen, like the clothes you wear and what sport you play, life will always follow the same plan. So isn't it just better to have simplicity in life?

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After all the glare and toil, And the daylight's fretful coil, Thou dost come so milt and still, Hearts with love and peace fo fill; As when after revelry With a talking company, Where the blaze of many lights Fell on fools and parasites, One by one the guests have gone, And we find ourselves alone; Only one sweet maiden near, With a sweet voice low and clear, Whispering music in our ear,-- So thou talkest to the earth After daylight's weary mirth.

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This is a wordle i created with all kind of words relating to transcendentalism. The words on it all represent some significant value or building block or transcendentalism. I included words such as “Utopian”, and “Revolution,” to show how it’s not just a religion but a better way to live.

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This is a picture of mw from over the summer when I went to the beach and it was one of the most beautiful scenes i've ever looked at. All my family and i took a while and just sat there, staring out into the endless ocean, god’s holy creation. We definitely saw God in the world on that day, when the sun glimmered of the ocean and onto the rocks it looks truly amazing.

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This is a video, that we actually watched in class at the very beginning of this unit, all about Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is an informational video about Emerson’s life and how he came to be the person he was.

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This is a news article from the BBC news network all about the Great Barrier Reef. There are a series of videos of a man named David Attenborough adventuring the vast reef. When i went through this article i was awestruck, because this reef is so amazing an so insanely beautiful, God had to have been at work. You can almost see God himself in every piece of coral and fish. They all live together in perfect harmony and act as solid proof that God is at work in every aspect of nature.

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BBC One - Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough

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David Attenborough returns to his most magical place on earth, the Great Barrier Reef.

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This podcast is an interview of philip Gura, an American author who wrote “American Transcendentalism.” This podcast is about what transcendentalism looks like in the current age. Philip Gura wrote his book about how we live in a time where you can't really just go out into the woods and live. Most people have jobs and families, and his book is on how these normal people can still transcend while keeping their lives. Phillip gives many tips like a weekly hike in the mountains and a daily walk. If not a walk then just go outside and breathe the fresh air to get out of the office. Even though we live in a modernized world, transcendentalism can still exist.

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Philip Gura's American Transcendentalism

Emersonians, awake!

Evening Grosbeaks & American Dawn

You regulars from the comment thread know who you are: mynocturama, peggysue, bobby, allison, nother and of course, potter, among the vast and various summer circle ...

We're wallowing in the transcendent mystery of things with Philip Gura, the author of American Transcendentalism: A History. Gura is an eminent professor of literature and culture at the University of North Carolina, but he's also "one of us," avid in the non-dogmatic, non-exclusive pursuit of the ecstatic, the invisible, the divine.

Toward the end of this conversation, Philip Gura explains how it began for him, 44 years ago. He was a child in Ware, Massachusetts, the son of immigrant mill folk, when he came upon a nest of "huge, garrulous, yellow birds eating choke cherries." When he wrote to the American Museum of Natural History for help identifying his find, the great ornithologist Dean Amadon wrote him directly to say the birds had to be evening grosbeaks, cousins of the goldfinch.

Naturalist and Prophet: HDT

Birds and New England nature led to Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau led to the genius moment and the genius cluster of the American renaissance in Concord - writers, thinkers, social consciences that to this day "represent something about our past that we want to be part of" and a key that perhaps hasn't been turned all the way in the door of American life.

The insistent voice of Mary McGrath asks, as always: "Okay, Chris, what's the question for listeners?"

Okay, Mary, here it is: Do the mostly sectarian, literalist and Fundamentalist questions around our politics of 2008 prove that transcendentalist impulses thrive - or expired long ago? Does the tempest that Mitt Romney, for example, has stirred around himself and his Mormonism mark a dismal falling-off - or rather an amazing continuity - of the old transcendentalist passion about faith, spirit and the religious underpinnings of this nation's life. Extra points for apt Emersonian quotes. And extra-extra points for apt quotes from other than Emerson.

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Emersonians, awake! Evening Grosbeaks & American Dawn You regulars from the comment thread know who you are: mynocturama, peggysue, bobby, allison, nother and of course, potter, among the vast and various summer circle ... We're wallowing in the transcendent mystery of things with Philip Gura, the author of American Transcendentalism: A History .

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I thought this picture was very cool when i saw it, because one of the biggest beliefs in transcendentalism is that God is in everything, every animal, every plant, even nonliving objects. This piece of art shows that very well because it's a beautiful landscape, but if you look closely, the mountains for a man, or godlike figure. This to me symbolizes how God, even if we don't know it, is in every part of nature.

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This is a very cool image, that has deeper meanings than meets the eye. The person in this photo, like transcendentalism shows that a you cannot be your true self without realizing the beauty of the world. Half of this kid’s face is made up of nature, it makes me think of Thoreau, or Emerson. Being one with nature is a huge step in transcendentalism and you almost need to be half human half nature to really understand transcendentalism. Once you realize the beauty of the world, and realize that God is in everything a person can not just live but begin to “Be.”

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Lord knows

Dreams are hard to follow

But don't let anyone

Tear them away, hey yeah

Hold on

There will be tomorrow

In time you'll find the way

This is a very powerful song, and the specific lyrics that i have picked out are all about conformity. Mariah sings about how everyone has a dream, and dreams are very hard to follow. There will always be the easier option of being average, and conforming to society’s model of how a person should be. Mariah says that we need to stick on our own path, no matter how hard and never conform no matter how difficult it gets, because “in time you'll find the way.”

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I Believe I Can Fly By: R. Kelly (Song 2)

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I Believe I Can Fly By: R. Kelly (Song 2)

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I believe I can fly

I believe I can touch the sky

I think about it every night and day (Night and day)

Spread my wings and fly away

In this song, R. Kelly begins with talking about where he was mentally (not in a good place). The song then shifts to him learning about his inner power and how he can do anything when he just believes. Just like transcendentalism, all you have to do is believe and just be the best version of yourself than anything can happen. R. Kelly says how he feels like he can fly and soar through the air as if he is enlightened. He has reached his inner understanding and belief that he is unique and this empowers him.

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This quote by emerson speaks on simplicity, and taking in your surroundings. Everyday people miss amazing things that the world has to offer because their head is in their phone. Phones and technology distract us from the incredible world that God has made for us. Even if it’s just for a second or two, everybody needs to take time every day and just look up. Take in nature, all the smells, sounds, and scenery that GOd has put on this Earth. It is truly amazing, and people miss it too often.

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I’m this quote Henry David Thoreau is talking about simplicity. In the current world or lives are almost dictated by the “details.” This includes things such as what we wear, or what kind of phone we have. All these material things, or “details” distract us from life, and its beauty. To truly transcend and live life to the fullest a person must not get caught up in all the details and just begin to live with simplicity.

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This is a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This quote is almost a building block of transcendentalism because it’s about being open and how love and god is in everything and everyone, you just have to look. Emerson tells us that the only way to get a friend is to look for the good in other people and accept them into our lives. Then, and then only. Will other people truly begin to accept you. That is a true friendship in the eyes of Emerson, a bond formed with love, trust, and companionship.

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This article is a little different than a story of some beautiful forest somewhere out there, but rather about plants growing on the moon. One of the central beliefs in Transcendentalism is that God is in all life no matter what. This is a story of how God prevails in one of the harshest environments ever. A plant, or in some sense God, is everywhere, even on the moon. Transcendentalism focuses on the beauty in the little things, and this plant on the moon is very little and insignificant. But Thoreau taught us that all things are significant and anything can happen, even a plant growing on the moon!

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China's Chang'e-4 mission has become the first ever to grow plants on the Moon. The lander sent back images of a cotton seed sprouting in a mini-biosphere experiment, a feat announced on 15 January.

The pioneering experiment is one of several being carried out by Chang'e-4, a mission that is quickly racking up lunar firsts. On 3 January, it became first craft to make a soft landing on the far side of the Moon.

A small, sealed container carrying the seeds also contained nutrients, air and water, as well as yeast and fruit-fly eggs. The idea is for the plants to try and form a mini biosphere - an artificial, self-sustaining environment.

"It will provide a basis for world scientists to study the biological growth and photosynthesis under the conditions of low gravity, wide temperature difference and long illumination of the moon," says Xie Genxin, a space environment scientist at Chongqing University and the chief designer of the biological experiment payload on the Chang'e mission.

Chang'e-4 is also testing whether potato and thale-cress ( Arabidopsis) seeds sprout and photosynthesize in a sealed, climate-controlled environment in the low gravity on the lunar surface.

Xie says that the experiments will provide a basis for research into culturing plants on the Moon and could inspire the construction of future lunar bases for humans.

"When we take the step towards long-term human habitation on the Moon or Mars, we will need greenhouse facilities to support us, and will need to live in something like a biosphere," Anna-Lisa Paul, a horticultural scientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, told Nature ahead of the launch.

Space salad

The experiments also seek to verify previous studies done on the International Space Station that found that potato and thale-cress can grow normally in controlled ecosystems in lower gravity than on Earth, but not in gravity as low as on the Moon.

The Chang'e-4 lander also sent panoramic images of the far side of the Moon on 11 January. Its six-wheeled rover Yutu2 had woken up on 10 January, after a 'nap' scheduled to avoid overheating during the hottest period of the lunar day; the rover and Chang'e-4 took pictures and videos of each other.

On 14 January, the China National Space Administration announced plans for at least three further lunar missions. The first, Chang'e-5, will launch before the end of the year, aiming to collect a sample of lunar material and return it to Earth.

Additional reporting by David Cyranoski.
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Plant sprouts on the Moon for first time ever

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China's Chang'e-4 mission has become the first ever to grow plants on the Moon. The lander sent back images of a cotton seed sprouting in a mini-biosphere experiment, a feat announced on 15 January. The pioneering experiment is one of several being carried out by Chang'e-4, a mission that is quickly racking up lunar firsts.

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This is a very powerful quote by Thoreau, and it has everything to do with conformity. The way i take this quote, is that society has a way of shaping and molding everyone to be the same person, and have the same goals (fishing). People need to be strong and confident enough in who they are to accept that they are different and chase their own goals when people say otherwise. Whenever somebody is the slightest bit different, or has some kind of dream that is not just average, people want to make fun of them, but we really need to be praising these people because they know that fish is not what they are after.

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This piece of art is called “The Gold of Nature” and it was painted by Leonid Afremov. This piece of artwork is perfect for transcendentalism, because it depicts a scene in nature of true beauty and tranquility. This takes place in the fall, when all the trees are changing colors and has a few leaves on the ground already. On the path, there is a single person just walking, and taking in Nature. This is how it's like to be a transcendentalist. Transcendentalists are very separated from all else and just focus on nature and learning from it and it's true beauty.

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What a Wonderful Life, By: Louis Armstrong (Song 1)

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What a Wonderful Life, By: Louis Armstrong (Song 1)

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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

These are some of the lyrics in the song and they relate directly to transcendentalism for many reasons. The lyrics, much like transcendentalism are about loving the world and realizing its beauty. As the song goes on the singer, Louis, learns things about life from just whitnesing them and seeing them in nature, and that is exactly how a transcendentalist is supposed to learn, from nature, not a bunch of mass produced textbooks. What a wonderful world is a very good song and lulls the listener into a very peaceful and relaxed state of just pure appreciation for our world.