Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right

The lyrics of this song show transcendentalism by talking about a "new beginning". The repetitive phrase, "Here comes the sun", is like a door opening to clearer, happier days. Little darling probably represents lost, but renewed relationship. In all, these lyrics represent Emerson's beliefs of taking action and opening a new door to happiness.

This article talks about not only how Thoreau learned self-reliance, but it also describes how the 'outcast' that lived around him also lived too. Brister Freeman (Thoreau's real name) was a black man who learned self reliance after becoming a freed man and learning how to support himself. He ended up embracing spartan living by "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity". Thoreau further understood self-reliance by his definition of to "live deliberately" as said in the article, "In Thoreau’s words, was to wrest oneself from the diversions of this rat race, to understand the difference between the seemingly urgent matters of spending and acquiring and the truly significant ones of caring and thinking." Because of how Thoreau lived his life out near Walden in nature with simplicity and living deliberately, he truly learned to appreciate things and became a true transcendental this way.

This podcast talks about how a group called Extinction Rebellion is taking action and trying to get the rest of the world to join them in that action to do something about climate change before its too late. This is a group of green activists who are using civil disobedience as one of their main ways to get their point across to the whole world. As Rory Varrato, a member of the group, explained it, "Civil disobedience is an act of political communication." They are using transcendentalism in this modern age by engaging in a "nonviolent direct action and disruption for the purpose of communicating a message." (Rory Varrato)

This article talks about how girls are now taking action and engaging in self-reliance by joining Boy Scouts in an attempt at getting their Eagle Scout. As Thoreau's first quote suggested, these girls are confidently following their current dreams and engaging in Boy Scouts as they each go on their own path towards Eagle Scout. By the end of their Boy Scout journey, they will be mostly, if not completely self-reliant and independent as they continue on their own path through life.