leaves fall snow cores
ground freezes for a time
still and quiet
new  beginnings in spring
world awakens with light
long shadows emerge on ground
nest in trees renewed with warmth
treas burst with now bods
leaves protect and hide natural freasures
shadows shelter from heat

Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism is a very simple word or idea that is used to describe people. Men and women equally have knowledge about themselves and the world around them; beyond what they can see, hear, taste, touch or feel. This knowledge comes through intuition or imagination and not through logic or the senses. People can trust in themselves; to be their own authority on what is right.

Thoreau talks about how the beautiful things in nature can help us. God has blessed us with all these beautiful things in nature that we should take advantages of in this world.

In some aspects, we have used our hand to destroy what has been given to us; just like when God created Adam and Eve. They were given everything but only after their sin were they able to see and understand nature.

Thoreau is saying transcendentalism is just like a right. It is based on his way of associating things with the nature of individualism, which we know as an idea of an individual life that is derived from a person’s nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society; or any form of association, cooperation, or peaceful coexistence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights.

Groups, as such, have no rights other than the individual rights of its members. Our sense of connection begins when we are born as part of nature into the natural world. How we sustain that relies on our ability and willingness to our conjoined; what is required to keep strong connection in any relationship.

This connection to nature is a sense that there is a joined destiny and belonging between humans and the rest of the natural world. We may exist in relationships with each other, whether we are physically distant or close, but a sense of connection keeps nature close to the heart, it is intimate.

Like any relationship there is a range of feelings: mutual respect, understanding, love, awe, empathy, belonging, fascination, need, and happiness. Truth is above all else what you want. A relationship becomes bitter if someone chooses to tell a lie because when someone lies to get attention, we all believe him. Thoreau said "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." In saying this he is telling us that he would rather have truth in his life than have his life be covered by the lie of being happy simply because he has money or fame.

Thoreau also had a dislike of materialism. His transcendentalism placed value on the individual and his inner feelings and ideas above the possessions attained through life. He believed that the desire for material things was a distraction from true happiness. The desire for material things was also the cause of much of the dishonesty in the world and led to greed and corruption.

Thoreau believed that the individual must rely on his intuition to guide his pursuit of truth. Intuition is the inner feelings that guide one to a decision. Intuition will cause you to make good choices more often than not. Intuition is a part of human nature that is endowed by God to help us.