Hayden Horter Nick Everly Michael Keyser Griffin Gilreath Ralph Waldo Emerson Hayden Horter Nick Everly Michael Keyser Griffin Gilreath

Biography Born May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts Led transcendentalist movement Founder of American Renaissance Moved from Boston to Concord

(Continued) Harvard graduate Class poet Prophetic essays Influenced many Renaissance writers with his essays Self-reliance and individualism

Summary From Nature “Nature not only re-creates us but creates through us.” From Self-Reliance “Self trust is the means by which we discover ‘that divine idea which each of us represent.’” From Friendship “Friend ship was so idealistic and demanding of “truth” that few friendships could sustain it.”

(Continued) From Experience From Fate From The Journals “A wise and happy life requires a different attitude.” From Fate “Human spirit always transcends its circumstances.” From The Journals “The “awful Life” of spirit which underlies all our lives.

Transcendentalist Ideas A transcendentalist teaches that divinity pervades all nature and humanity Individualism in writings Transcendence: went above and beyond with writings Emerson views of nature

Quotes “I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. I am part or particle of God” God part of him and him part of God “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string” You can do whatever you want; wherever you go What could the eyeball and nature represent?