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Transcendentalism Project

by: Lauren, Micah and Nayelli

Songs

Landslide- Fleetwood Mac

"I took this love and I took it down/ climbed a mountain and I turned around/ Then I saw my reflection in a snow-covered hill/ Till the landslide brought me down/...Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?/Can I handle the seasons of my life?" In this set of lyrics, the narrator is placing her life events in the context and cycles of nature. She first describes having an encounter with love, and then climbing mountains, or maybe having her encounter and carrying thoughts of it with her as she goes through her life until she is stopped by something and sees how it has changed her. In the next verse, she wonders if she'll easily manage the changes that may come, and if she'll be able to handle the "seasons of her life", or the passing of time, each experience entirely changing her background and perspective.

Transcendentalism-

Self-reliance

is the idea that people have knowledge about themselves and the world around them that "transcends" or goes beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch, or feel.

"In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this quote, it would appear that he is remarking on the importance of making and learning from mistakes to find success.

Nature

"In the woods, we return to reason and in faith."-Ralph Emerson Waldo

In this quote, he's suggesting that when one is faced with the bare necessities, he or she has to return to the depths of the mind, completely undistracted by materialistic things.

Songs

"Big Yellow Taxi"-- Joni Mitchell

"Give me spots on my apples/But leave me the birds and the bees/Please/Don't it always seem to go/ That you don't know what you've got/ Till it's gone/ They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot" In this song, the narrator is considering the relationship between mankind and nature, but seeing it as a negative one. He begins by asking the farmers to reduce the use of pesticides because they're killing nature, or more specifically, the birds and the bees. Throughout the whole song, he is emphasizing the importance of appreciating what one has and the beauty that is offered, because once it's gone, it can't be retrieved--"they paved paradise and put up a parking lot".

"The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child."-Ralph Waldo Emerson. He's saying that children have a deeper connection with nature than adults do. Children view nature seeing only the great creation, where adults see only the surface of what nature has too offer, clouded with personal experiences, interpretations, and thoughts.

Walden

Civil Disobedience

" That government is best which governs least." In this quote, the government is being analyzed and thought to be better systematically if it considers the ideas and thoughts of its citizens, as well as withdrawing itself when necessary rather than becoming too involved in the peoples' lives.

"The universe is wider than our views of it." --Henry David Thoreau

In this quote, he's saying that there's more to the universe than what meets the eye. He's trying to get people to look away from the obvious and consider things that aren't necessarily visible or apparent.

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is."-Henry David Thoreau. Time is like a stream, and individuals are just people who are spending time in it, having personal experiences. One also is able to come to the realization that life is short, seeing it the way one might see a sandy bottom of a stream continuously washing away.

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