To me Transcendentalism is a way to be free, to express your self an be your self as an individual. Not to worry about what other people will think of you or what you do. In sort of away be like nature. Nature is beautiful in it's own ways not caring what people think of it. It know no envy, or wants to be like someone else in the sense of a person. It Knows no beauty but it's own. In nature not even two animals of the same species are very alike they might look the same but they sure don't act the same. An that's because in nature everything is it's self.
That's why in nature you feel relaxed, in peace, not trying to impress anyone or be like anyone. In that moment that your out there your a part of nature.
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
-Albert Einstein
You really acknowledged the whole being of transcendentalism with your reflection. When nature is acting up and there are natural disasters this is related to transcendentalism through the social media and how people blow up and create unnecessary conflict with the natural flow of everyday life.
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I choose this quote because it tells you that you can use Nature to experience your self! Be who you are with out anybody judging you, or you telling you what you have to be like that. You don't have to worry about what people think or say about you. Nature doesn't judge it excepts everybody just how they are.
DeleteJavi(: I really like how you compared natures beauty to humans and animals. You stated that even if two animals are the same species it doesn't really make them the same. Many people have the same culture but they have their own beliefs. Nature is wierd but its beautiful and that is how everyone is. We are all nature.
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