Transcendentalist

1. In nature it explain how nature is a calming place. A place where you can go and it be you, your thoughts, god, and the peace of the nature. Its a place where you can be by yourself and not be influenced by others, a place where you can make your own decisions.This part stuck out to be the most "But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile." That is the best time to connect with nature to me. Being able to look up at the dark sky with all the stars and the moon, hearing the noises of all the different animals you're able to imagine and dream about the impossible, or atleast I know I am. If its only for a slight moment its just a calming state of mind. Relying on oneself, is the self-reliance. Its meaning is that you should trust in yourself and follow your conscious regardless of where it might lead you to. This statement stuck out to me "To be great is to be misunderstood..". To me it saying if you want to be great you have to be different. If you're like all the rest then you don't have greatness you have what everyone else has. In the first paragraph of Resistance to Civil Government it is obvious to notice that the character does not agree with government. The sentence, "...which also I believe--'That government is best which governs not at all';" makes it clear that he does not agree with government. He feels that it holds people back from their true potential and that man could do so much more without the government restricting them.

2. Transcendentalist beleive that if you connect with nature that you are connecting with God because God created nature. They believed that you speak to God through your minds, and since you are connecting with nature through your mind then your connecting with God.The first line of the text states, "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society." Transcendentalist pricieved solitude as speaking to God. To do the this they would have to forget about their worries and get completely away from there problems, which includes not dealing with others problems either. They needed a peace of mind and focus on their own thoughts and believe in what God was saying to them. Self-relevance is also connected to Trancendentalist. The sentence "Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today-" Is saying speak what your heart tells you today no matter what it is, and then tomorrow speak what your heart tells you even if it is the complete opposite of what you spoke the day before. That you should alway go with what your mjind tells you.

Transcendentalist did not agree with the government. They felt like the government was putting restrictions on their beliefs because they weren't able to speak what God was telling them. That without the government God would be incontrol and everything would be just fine. The sentence, "The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way." This relates to Transcendentalist because they believe that their minds will lead them to whatever needs to be done, but the government will forbid them to go with that.

3. In the video, Alone in the Wilderness, a man sets out with himself into the wilderness for a year. Just the title alone relates me to Transcendentalists. Nature was something created by God. To take on the wilderness by yourself would be a way to connect with God with no one else around and no other distractions. The man states, "What was I capable of that I didn't know yet?" This shows that he wants to go out by himself, with nothing to rely on but his own mind and conscious. This is exactly what Transcendentalist believed one should do.

The man uses his own hands to do the work he thought he wasn't capable of doing. He built a house in the woods just in the right spot. When talking about the wood on his cabin hanging off and how he needed to cut them shorter he says, "..you can't rush it." he realizes that rushing isn't the way to do things. To take it slow and get right the first time. Listening to his heart is what helped him. By not having anyone else to pursade him he was able to follow his conscious.

This video can relate to the Transcendentalist, because they believed that listening to your heart and not being influenced by anyone but God was the way to be. This man survives in the nature alone by using nothing but his intuition and what he knows.