1. Transcendentalists: Original Hippies and EnvironmentalistsBy
Eva Arce

2. TRANSCENDENTALISM

3. ASSERTION:
With their love for nature and humanity, Transcendentalists of the Nineteenth Century in America established the ideas that Hippies and Environmentalists embraced in the Twentieth Century.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836) The American Scholar (1837)
Self-Reliance (1841)

5. Henry David Thoreau
Walden
Civil Disobedience

6. Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1843)

7. Frederick Douglass
A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)

8. Characteristics Glory of Nature Emphasis on the goodness of humanity
Individualism
Self-reliance
Tolerance

9. Characteristics-continued
Focus on the human spirit
Belief in the Brotherhood of Man
Truth through Intuition
Optimism/Idealism
Belief in the Over-Soul

10. Transparent Eyeball (Go to readings)

11. Pocahontas
Disney Motion Picture

13. The Empire Strikes Back
Transcendentalism à la Yoda

15. Avatar

17. THEMATIC CONCLUSION:
By respecting nature and maintaining an open mind towards other people and their cultures, the Transcendentalists gave modern man sound advice about how to treat each other and our planet.