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This is a picture of some of my family camping. When we camp we must only pack the essentials for the trip. On this trip it was a weekend in nature. The fact that we could only pack our necessities ties in with the idea of the lifestyle of transcendentalists. This is because we were only supposed to pack what we needed and we immersed ourselves into nature where we could be one with the wild.

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Thoreau states that we shouldn't be waiting around to live life how we want to live it and we must act in order to be satisfied. This idea of seeking our ideas that need to be expressed ties back into living differently than others. Rather than waiting around for ideas to come to us, and worrying what others are going to think or say, we should live the way we want to and be one with nature and show that we can live with just the bare necessities.

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Emerson says that we should be breathing the wild air and thriving in the outdoors. This idea illustrates that we should be living within nature which connects back to the idea of being one with nature in the ideas of transcendental topics.

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When Emerson said this, he was talking about the aspect of transcendentalism where you must live in the moment. Emerson was big on living life in the moment and moving forward. This idea is still sometimes lived today, many people believe that living your life to the fullest is living life as if there isn't a tomorrow. This shows that the ideas of Emerson have carried themselves down the line of history.

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This quote relates to the idea that you must act instead of wait around for the life that you want to live. Because of his actions, he invented one of the most well known lifestyles known today. He set an example for many of us to follow especially because he knew how to carry out his ideas and help save humanity from living life without actually living it.

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This picture represents this type of lifestyle. It represents simplicity and how only the simple things is what we truly need and not unnecessary things. Henry lived in a minuscule house that had only the things that were necessary for survival. This image shows that only through simplicity are we able to allow the transcendental life into us.

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When Radiohead sings, "You are all I need
You are all I need
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the leaves

I am a moth
Who just wants to share your light" he relates the idea of nature to the fact that all he needs is love. Most of his song relates to nature and he compares it with his love, overall giving it a transcendental atmosphere. This is like the idea of we don't need much more than nature and love in our lives. Many people live in luxury without even knowing it. This lifestyle includes only what you as a human being need the most.

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Image 1 - Walden, by: Henry David Thoreau

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Image 1 - Walden, by: Henry David Thoreau

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This is an image of the house that Henry David Thoreau lived in when he decided to live the way he wanted to, through Transcendentalism. This signifies what he was willing to sacrifice when chose to live this way. Henry thought that nature was essential to the ideal transcendentalist lifestyle. This type of home away from convenient stores and luxuries such as electricity illustrated proved that the bare essentials of life can sustain a human.

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Podcast - American Transcendentalism, by: Phillip Gura

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Podcast - American Transcendentalism, by: Phillip Gura

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This podcast speaks on the basics of Transcendentalism and how it affected American history specifically. This philosophy influenced political and social events such as: the Abolition of slavery, the women's rights movement, and recent presidential campaigns. It touches on the idea that nature is the main plug into the world of Transcendentalism. This shows that much of what makes this idea unique is that Thoreau was willing to give up what most people had to live like this willingly.  It was through his actions that led to the discovery of his ideas and the now well known topic of Transcendentalism.

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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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PoemTry to Praise the Mutilated World, by: Adam Zagajewski 

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PoemTry to Praise the Mutilated World, by: Adam Zagajewski 

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In this poem in speaks about the beauty of nature. Transcendentalism is very nature based and this poem talks about how we must cherish the beauty of the nature all around us. This poems provokes you to realize that even though the Earth is scarred, we can still be a part of it. Just as Emerson thought that we are a part of nature. Nature is within us, both the savage and peaceful components of the wild.

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Try to praise the mutilated world.

Remember June's long days,

and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine.

The nettles that methodically overgrow

the abandoned homesteads of exiles.

You must praise the mutilated world.

You watched the stylish yachts and ships;

one of them had a long trip ahead of it,

while salty oblivion awaited others.

You've seen the refugees going nowhere,

you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.

You should praise the mutilated world.

Remember the moments when we were together

in a white room and the curtain fluttered.

Return in thought to the concert where music flared.

You gathered acorns in the park in autumn

and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.

Praise the mutilated world

and the gray feather a thrush lost,

and the gentle light that strays and vanishes

Adam Zagajewski, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" from Without End: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2002 by Adam Zagajewski. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, http://us.macmillan.com/fsg. All rights reserved.

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Source: Without End: New and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

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Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam... | Poetry Foundation

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Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others.

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Article 2 - Following Thoreau's Instincts, by: William Rossi

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Article 2 - Following Thoreau's Instincts, by: William Rossi

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Both Emerson and Thoreau are talked about in this article. The idea talked about in this article mentions that Transcendentalism is a progressive way of living life and this shows how Emerson and Thoreau thought thought more deeply than the typical person. Their ideas contributed to the idea of social Darwinism, which is a fairly recent topic. Emerson and Thoreau contributed a lot to the history and present day of our country.

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Thoreau's confession of two "instincts" at the beginning of "Higher Laws" exaggerates a tension already inherent in the favorite Transcendentalist metaphor of "instinct." On the one hand, the metaphor signifies idealist intuition, a mode of higher knowledge associated with progressive human development; on the other, the metaphor depends on the recognition of a form of nonhuman intelligence. Under the influence of pre-Darwinian evolutionary debates contemporaneous with Walden's composition, Thoreau's two instincts assumed the forms of conflicting notions of "development" circulating at the time. While the "higher" instinct fits with idealist theories of human development, his representation of the "lower" instinct implicitly acknowledges the human kinship with animals that was central to transmutationist theories. Following Thoreau's representation of these instincts through the Walden manuscript's evolution paradoxically reveals both a continuing commitment to transcendental progressionism and an increasing evolutionary awareness of animal kinship and animal intelligence.

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Not many people today would dispute Walden's status as an environmental classic. Yet on the central environmental question of human-animal kinship versus the superiority and privileged separation of human from nonhuman nature, Thoreau's classic must appear extremely limited. Animals are interesting to Thoreau as they "carry some portion of our thoughts." (1) But in themselves, let alone in the coevolutionary history of our relations with them, they appear hardly to exist at all. This historical limitation arises in large part, of course, from Thoreau's having written Walden almost a decade before Darwin published his theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species (1859), and two decades before Darwin developed the implications of human-animal kinship in The Descent of Man (1871). These are watershed documents, to which contemporary environmentalism and ecology trace their own intellectual origins, and without which they would be literally inconceivable. But they shaped a watershed Thoreau did not live in.

Yet our own historical horizon is limited as well. To adapt Emerson, the ruin or blank we see when we look at Walden in this respect is in our own eye, too. As far as evolutionary theory is concerned, our vision has been shaped both by earlier positivist historians of science and by the ongoing power of neo-Darwinian explanations. Consequently, when literary historians look for evolution before 1859, they tend to see only the proto-Darwinian "anticipations." But as science historian Evelleen Richards has shown, the path Darwin took to evolution, "along the route that led to natural selection," was not the only one. Rather, "there were a number of paths that ran alongside and sometimes intersected with Darwinism." (2) According to this more recent history of science, the blazing of several such paths was stimulated by a fifteen-year-long controversy over the "development hypothesis" that began in 1844 with the publication of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, anonymously authored by Edinburgh publisher and geologist Robert Chambers. While long recognized as having played a role in delaying publication of Darwin's theory, until recently the Vestiges controversy has been considered as merely a period curiosity in the history of biology, much as the sentimental novel in literary history and for similar reasons. (3) But as James A. Secord's exhaustive study demonstrates, not only did the Vestiges debates acquaint a broad Victorian public on both sides of the Atlantic with competing theoretical paradigms of natural order and the stakes involved in them, they also stimulated the curiosity of naturalists and working researchers in botany, comparative anatomy, and in such new disciplines as embryology and ornithology, leading them down those paths referred to by Richards. (4)

Given Emerson's and Thoreau's keen interest in science, as Laura Dassow Walls and Eric Wilson most recently and most thoroughly have demonstrated, and given that the eruption of the Vestiges controversy in the spring and summer of 1845 coincided exactly with Thoreau's move to Walden Pond, perhaps it was inevitable that some of Chambers' ideas would find their way into Thoreau's own story of "development. ...

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Thoreau's confession of two "instincts" at the beginning of "Higher Laws" exaggerates a tension already inherent in the favorite Transcendentalist metaphor of "instinct." On the one hand, the metaphor signifies idealist intuition, a mode of higher knowledge associated with progressive human development; on the other, the metaphor depends on the recognition of a form of nonhuman intelligence.

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Sia sings, "Hit the dance floor
I got all I need
No I ain't got cash
I ain't got cash
But I got you baby".
These lyrics claim that Sia needs a very short list of things to be fulfilled. She explains that she doesn't have money, but she can still live her life to the absolute fullest if she has her love interest. Dancing is also something that many people connect to spiritually and emotionally. This quote points to her priorities (partaking in transcendental activity) ....not acquiring money.

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Video - Family Ditch Expensive Rents To Live in a Converted School Bus, by: Barcroft TV

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Video - Family Ditch Expensive Rents To Live in a Converted School Bus, by: Barcroft TV

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This video shows how a family of 5 turned an old school bus into a mobile home. The family can only fit the bare essentials of life into their house because the space is limited. This is a great example of something that Thoreau would have done if he lived during this time period. Living in a home like this and choosing this lifestyle over the normal style of living with more than what is needed.

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Family Ditch Expensive Rents To Live In A Converted School Bus

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Article 1 - Emerson's Natural Theology, by: Daniel Payne

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Article 1 - Emerson's Natural Theology, by: Daniel Payne

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Emerson viewed the world in its entirety...focusing not just on science and nature, but how they connect to the soul and to the human experience. When the article discusses that Emerson wanted to live life in the moment, he was preaching that observing phenomenons in nature can make us appreciate our own existence. Emerson believed that nature lived within us and that if we chose to follow the transcendentalist lifestyle that we would be able to access our true selves.

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Emerson's Natural Theology: John Burroughs and the "Church" of Latter Day T...: EBSCOhost

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In this photo was taken while I was in the process of taking family photos by Mount Timpanogos. This was such a special moment because we were basically in the middle of no where and we were so happy and at peace. I came to realize that all that I need in life is my family and this place. So I took a picture and cherished the moment like Thoreau did.

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Jessie J expresses how much money doesn't matter when she sings: "We're paying with love tonight
It's not about the money money money
We don't need your money money money
We just wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag
Ain't about the uh cha-ching cha-ching". In this song, she says that money shouldn't be the main thing that brings you happiness and this idea relate to Thoreau because he feels the same way. Thoreau never feels like paying his taxes should be required and this therefore, relates to the transcendental idea that money isn't necessary to really live.

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This picture shows that meditation and finding oneself represents what life is like living the transcendentalist lifestyle. Much of the way of living in this way is about finding peace and learning more about oneself. This picture is a good representation of this philosophy.