slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." William Styron • "In the highest civilization‚ the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." Ralph Waldo Emerson • "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." Joseph Brodsky • "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." W Somerset Maugham • "Every man who
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around the 1800’s. The "Father of Transcendentalism" was Ralph Waldo Emerson. Him and other believers spread their thoughts by writing essays. These essays were focused on different topics of transcendentalism‚ like self-reliance. Transcendentalists strongly believed in self-reliance and that self-reliance brings happiness. Even nowadays‚ most people think self-reliance is a key to a valuable life; however‚ some may not. Emerson and Thoreau believed that self-reliance was an important aspect
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in nature‚ which was his greatest inspiration. He loved everything about nature and became somewhat of an expert on local plants and wildlife. Though he is best known for his philosophical writing‚ most of his writing is classified as nature writing. Three books published after his death‚ which are a great example of travel and nature writing‚ are The Maine Woods‚ Cape Cod‚ and A Yankee in Canada. Besides nature‚ another inspiration for Thoreau’s was one of his neighbors in Concord‚ Ralph Waldo
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Whitman‚ “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer‚” “I Hear America Singing‚” “Song of Myself” • Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ “The Birth-Mark‚” “The Minister’s Black Veil‚” “The Earth’s Holocaust” • Hiram Powers’ Eve Tempted and The Greek Slave • Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Nature‚ “Self-Reliance” • Henry David Thoreau‚ Walden and “Resistance to Civil Government” • Herman Melville‚ from “The Encantadas‚” “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener‚” “The Tartarus of Maids‚” Moby-Dick • Edgar Allan Poe‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart‚” “The
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more to be more about the loss of a certain perception of nature and not the loss of nature itself. He says in the documentary that we need to “cut off our roots in nature”. He thinks this because‚ the catastrophes that he warns about are all human caused natural catastrophes and not the damaging ability of nature itself. Furthermore‚ while Zizek criticizes ecology of fear he also connects a view of nature in which is asserted to viewing nature as sacred and so forth. He claims that whenever we come
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people are limited to only being able to communicate by word of mouth‚ then that would give us less work to do and less stress because we are physically limited to being able to complete our tasks. In turn‚ this would help us become more connected to nature because we couldn’t rely on unnatural means to get our work done. After a week of this experiment I realized that my theory did not simplify my life at all. However‚ it was not a failed experiment because it did what it was supposed to do‚ hindering
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in 1833 to 1837. He took courses in philosophy mathematics‚ and science. He wasn’t satisfied with the traditional professions for college graduates so he and his brother John taught school in Canton‚ Massachusetts. After he graduated he met Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2. He went into the woods because he wanted a place to write that he wouldn’t be bothered. He quotes “I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately‚ to front only the essential facts of life‚ and see if I could not learn what it
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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant‚ without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. ~Francis John McConnell I believe in America because we have great dreams - and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. ~Wendell
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different people. Ralph Waldo Emerson describes self reliance as being yourself‚ being unique‚ and having your own opinion. Being a self reliant is not something that is easy. It can be very challenging. Self reliance is an important skill to have. In Emerson’s “Self Reliance” we are taught to trust ourselves. Sometimes we let society tell us who we should be and we depend on what everyone else is doing around us. “Absolve you to yourself‚ and you shall have the suffrage of the world” (Emerson). This quote
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of those people end up conforming and doing what has been done in the past. They end up walking down the worn out path that so many have walked before. However‚ a famous writer named Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that you need to venture off the main path and explore new ideas if you truly want to be great. Emerson was one of the most famous examples of a transcendentalist. Transcendentalists were basically Idealists‚ but in a more practical sense. They believed that all people should strive to reach
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