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"The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life."

This quote displays the tenet of rejection of traditional establishment as it is urging people to turn away from toiling doing physical labor and instead open their minds and awaken to the opportunity of living a divine life.

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"He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea."

Within this quote the tenet of rejection of traditional establishment is displayed as Thoreau is explaining how the traditional concept of staying within ones home creates a vagrant while when one wanders and allows them self to be emerged within nature they are like the river, a peaceful and meandering entity.

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"The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood."

Within this quote the tenet of returning to nature and simplicity is displayed as Emerson is speaking of the natural beauty of the components of nature and how delightful being within this natural beauty can be. It also speaks about the wisdom of the natural world solidifying the idea that people should return to their natural ways as nature holds the wisdom people need.

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"A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of Beauty."

This quote displays the tenet of returning to nature and simplicity as it is stating that when one is served by nature they are nobler than those who do not live a life surrounded by the beauty of the natural world.

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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."

This quote connects to the tenet of the individualism of man as it states that "imitation is suicide" which means that when one tries to be the same as someone else it is setting them up for failure and in forwarding this assertion it places emphasis on the fact that individualism is a key component within life.

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2A. Dead Poet's Society  and Whitman's Poem

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2A. Dead Poet's Society  and Whitman's Poem

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Walt Whitman's poem affected me deeply so to the fact that it made me reflect inwardly on my life's goals and think about how my life is going to leave a mark on this world. The in class viewing was not the first time I have seen the film Dead Poet's Society so when I was told we would be watching it I was overjoyed that I would be watching one of my favorite films. Upon watching the film in class I was able to connect more deeply to its meaning and gain for the first time a full understanding of what its message really is, "carpe diem", seize the day and live your life on your own terms. You only have one life. Live it well.

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Neil and Keating Talk About the Need for Individual Expression

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2B. The Dead Poet Society and Transcendentalism

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2B. The Dead Poet Society and Transcendentalism

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This scene connects to the transcendental tenet of individualism as Keating is expressing to Neil that he must to face his fear and express how important acting is to him or else he will forever have to act and conform to the unrealistic and unfair desires of his father.

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My verse will be aiding in the fight against climate change and the rehabilitation of endangered animal species. I will educate myself at the best school and focus my education on how I will achieve the greatest impact on our Earth. I will strive to better the planet not only by my own changing of destructive ways but in the education of others through environmental research and publication. My goal is to work on a wildlife reserve in one of the remote and beautiful portions of the world as a veterinary specialist as well as a researcher in climate and ecosystem sciences where everyday my love for nature can flourish and make a difference. I will leave this planet having done all I can to save the creatures who share this Earth with the human population and who we have so cruelly pushed the needs of aside in the wake of our industrialization and griping for economic glory. I will fight for every creature who has no voice to fight for themselves and along the way educate another generation of those who believe we must do better for our planet.

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When society broke from its ancient roots

When the trees, the rivers, the seas, were forgotten

When the animals, the beasts were destroyed

When they were shown the life of money

When they heard the learn'd economist teach

And clasped their hands at his lecture

How soon his lecture took over the minds

How soon the words grew legs and vines

Twisting and warping till suffocation began

Wrapping and chasing all those who listened

How soon I too fell under the economists spell

Til waking and surmounting the tallest cliff

In the glorious breaking of dawn

Til the first ounce of precious light

Penetrated deep into my soul

In the early morning sun my eyes did open, and for the first time,

Poked holes in the economist’s ironclad teachings

Like a fern filtering carbon-filled air

Like soil clarifying ground water

Surmounted on the cliff bathed in golden light my thoughts became cleansed

My poem connects to Transcendentalism as it speaks of the challenges modern society faces with following the tenets of transcendentalism and it describes my individual awakening and understanding of those tenets which took place in nature, specifically sunrise on the top of a hill.

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The Na'vi people connect themselves to nature both spiritually and physically displaying the tenet of returning to nature and simplicity and one of the main character's, Jake Sully, actions showcase the tenets of rejecting traditional establishment and individualism.

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This hashtag relates to Transcendentalism because it is urging the people of San Diego to return to the trees and live out the naturalist life most citizens have been denying themselves.

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This connects to Transcendentalism as I am connecting with nature by taking a trip to specifically go to a river and enjoy the nature around it.

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This connects to Transcendentalism because I am returning to nature and simplicity by sitting peacefully and watching the sunrise paint the sky.

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This connects to Transcendentalism because I am appreciating the beauty of nature within the frog and I am returning to childlike ways by playing in the stream by which the frog was found.

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This image connects to Transcendentalism as I am actively protesting against the Anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that was passed embodying the tenet of being involved in social reform.

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8. Challenges with Transcendental Tenets

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8. Challenges with Transcendental Tenets

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Some problems with living out the transcendental tenets in modern society are American citizens' obsession and desire to increase their wealth, their willingness to conform with society and the drastic hold technology has on American lives.

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Transcendentalism showcases that nature educates individuals to become self-reliant beings who will positively contribute to society by personifying nature as a teacher, stressing the benefits of individualism, and asserting that society is benefited by self-reliant people in order to aid in the conversion of New England citizens to transcendental thinking.

The image I chose connects to Transcendentalism because the man is studying beneath the bowers of a tree as well as connecting with nature by being outdoors and among the animals present in the background of the photo.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” (Toews 3)

“Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn” (Thoreau 29)

“Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood” (Emerson 2)