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The Concord Transcendentalists
This group is devoted to the philosophy and writings of The Concord Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson,Henry David Thoreau, and others with similiar beliefs who lived in Concord,Ma in the 19th century. Post your quotes and thoughts on the importance of this still influential philosophy.
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The Transcendentalist
"The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of the human mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstasy"-RW EMERSON
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Your Life
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault finder will find faults even in paradise."
Henry David Thoreau
Lessons
Will you not open your heart to know
What rainbows teach and sunsets show?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
pet quotes and poem
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.
I stand and look at them long and long. - Walt Whitman
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
- Abraham Lincoln
She sits composedly sentinel, with paws
tucked under her, a good part of her days
at present, by some ridiculous little hole,
the possible entry of a mouse.
(Henry David Thoreau)
I stand and look at them long and long. - Walt Whitman
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
- Abraham Lincoln
She sits composedly sentinel, with paws
tucked under her, a good part of her days
at present, by some ridiculous little hole,
the possible entry of a mouse.
(Henry David Thoreau)
Taking Control
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy...is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lakes
Following Richard's posting of the poem by Yeats, here is an offering from Thoreau:
“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth’s eye looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
A favorite poem of mine by William Butler Yeats that was inspired by his reading of Thoreau.
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
Nature
Nature is...something indispensable, like air and light and water, that we accept as necessary to living, and the nearer we can get to it the happier we are.
~ Louise Dickenson Rich
~ Louise Dickenson Rich
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