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#1A "Where I lived and What I Lived For.."

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#1A "Where I lived and What I Lived For.."

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"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail." - Henry Thoreau

You are not meant to live life with a mind full of problems Transcendentalism is about living a life with a clear mind and waiting for the possibilities of life to flow to you.

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“No wealth can buy the requisite leisure, freedom, and independence which are the capital in this profession.”
-Emerson

Transcendentalism is not about living life in luxury since these luxuries take away from experiencing the true purpose of life.

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"The sun only illuminates in the eye of the man but shines into the eye and heart of the child."
-Emerson

Adults have a superficial connection with nature seeing it as an object whereas children body Transcendentalism in their souls with their spiritual connection with the natural world.

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"Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole."
-Emerson

Nature is not seen as beautiful for the fact of one flower or one tree but, for the entirety of the ecosystem and what it means and brings to life as a whole.

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“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding”
-Emerson

Transcendentalism is about not worrying about how your life looks to others, you are meant to live life for yourself, not for the people around you.

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#2A Response To "O Me! O Life!" & Dead Poets Society

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#2A Response To "O Me! O Life!" & Dead Poets Society

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The poem written by Walt Whitman is a very enlightening poem in how people dream up these impossible possibilities of how they want their life to be. These dreams consume their life until it's what defines them. It's a poem about the purpose of the existence of everyone. People forget to live life to live not to live life for a goal. The movie the Dead Poets Society was an inspiring movie that I throughly enjoyed. The movie taught the audience to live life to the fullest (Carpe Diem) and seize every opportunity that presented itself to them.

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This scene from the Dead Poets society relates to the Transcendentalism tenet of non conformity as to what they don't believe is right and this is seen when they rip out the page in the textbook they do not agree with.

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My verse in life will be to contribute a helping hand, someone to lead you down a hard path in your life. I want to be a psychiatrist someone to come to when you have lost hope in helping yourself. I will give up my voice to listen to yours in order to understand you and help you understand yourself. I will become a pair of ears to talk to whom will listen to you when no one else will. I will seek this path through higher education in order to be qualified to understand others in a way that no one else will.

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Loud

Why is it so loud

The noises from the crowds

The booming sounds

The smell of diesel in the air

Why does no one seem to care

Replaced by concrete jungles

And the pounding of feet

Is this where I accept defeat

No.

I search through this place I do not call home

I search through this place made out of stone

I search for a place to call my own

And I found it in the light that shown

I do not hear the crowds

What happened to the loud

Quiet

Oh so quiet

Trees answer my pleas

The breeze seizes my breath

But I do not feel death

I feel free

One with the trees

Escaping a world not made for me

Home

I have found my home

A place in the universe to call my own

No sweltering crowds or pestering sounds

The concrete jungle is no more

Now I must go explore

Away from the place I used to know

Towards a place to call my home

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Unwritten is a song about living life for yourself, feeling "the rain on your skin" because "no one can feel it for you".

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Living in San Diego we are lucky enough to live in the throughs of nature, always being kissed by the sun and never able to hide from the beauty of nature.

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The golf course was full of animals and nature making it a perfect place to disconnect from my problems and the worlds problems.

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Nature knows no bounds even in places overrun by concrete, nature still finds a way to have a place.

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This was the only flower I found in the sea of dirt, the only anomaly that stood out in a vast brown land of dirt.

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#8 Viewing Nature through the Eye of a Lens

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#8 Viewing Nature through the Eye of a Lens

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The eye of the a lens from a camera to a phone stop the people of the world from viewing nature in its whole without technology becoming a barrier it makes nature lose its simplicity.

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The image above is of the connection between the mind and nature which forges the path to Transcendentalism.

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Transcendentalism was a movement in the 1800s that pushed for a sense of individualism and a deeper connection to nature as a whole. The focus on the tenets of Transcendentalism led to people trying to forge deeper connections with nature in their own company. This in turn gave birth to “self-reliance” the need to do things for yourself in solitude. Nature played a key role in the establishment of relying on oneself. To fully be able to rely on oneself you had to be able to forge a spiritual connection with nature and all its simplicity.

"You cannot be scared to stand up for what you believe is right because if you don’t then how will it ever change."

"When someone continuously copies what society believes it suppresses their own ideals. They lose passion in their work since it is not truly theirs. When using self-reliance you rely only on your own facts and opinions. YOU create the piece, not someone else."

"To be connected to nature spiritually was a necessity since it means that you've opened your mind to the possibility of nature. "