In the collection of essays from walden by henry david thoreau had a lot of transcendentalist based statements some of which were based on the premise of nature and god.
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. . . .” (lines 155 from the pond in winter.) What Thoreau means literally by this is everywhere around him is perfect. But how this connects to nature and god is really just that heaven is this distant paradise but nature is also that paradise and it completely perfect. This quote supports my thesis of the nature and god because in the good he compares nature to heaven and that’s what he means and since he’s comparing the two it also says that nature is a creation of god and so is heaven so this quote is just saying nature …show more content…
There was a dead horse in the middle of the road on the way to his house it was disgusting so he went out of his way way to avoid but he couldn’t help but admire it and how it’s helping represent the cycle of nature and help it move as god intended. In a sense the horse is returning to nature and nature as he explained earlier about his opinion on nature. Both of these quotes are related to the premise of nature and god the reason they relate because they both explain how god created nature and how nature is all around us. The premise of nature and god has many pages and quotes where it is supported but other premises in thoreau’s writing support another transcendentalist premise known as self reliance.
Self reliance is another big premise in Thoreau’s writing for transcendentalism and has almost the same amount of relevance in the writing as the other premise nature and god. ”I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not …show more content…
Thoreau talks about how he goes into to woods to build his life on the simplistic necessities that any human needs so he can live a “spartan like” life. This really supports self reliance because he even talks about how he is getting away from people and living a mile away from the nearest town just so he can live his simplistic self reliant lifestyle. This quote was longer but had a lot of evidence and speaking as to how it supports the premise. This next quote is shorter but still supports the transcendentalist premise just as well. ” Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.” )lines 57-58 from where i lived and what i lived for). Thoreau is saying that everyone wants to run through life quickly that they will starve before they are even hungry. The quote talks about how we live our lives in such hurry that we don't slow down and think about what we eat or when we eat because we follow the social norms of what we should eat and when we should eat so thoreau's goes into the woods and lives by himself straying away from the societal norms. Both these quotes from thoreau's writing are big pieces of evidence to explain the premise of self reliance because in both he talks about how he strays away from society to live on his own and how that is more beneficial than following in what others do in a long convoluted kind of
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. . . .” (lines 155 from the pond in winter.) What Thoreau means literally by this is everywhere around him is perfect. But how this connects to nature and god is really just that heaven is this distant paradise but nature is also that paradise and it completely perfect. This quote supports my thesis of the nature and god because in the good he compares nature to heaven and that’s what he means and since he’s comparing the two it also says that nature is a creation of god and so is heaven so this quote is just saying nature …show more content…
There was a dead horse in the middle of the road on the way to his house it was disgusting so he went out of his way way to avoid but he couldn’t help but admire it and how it’s helping represent the cycle of nature and help it move as god intended. In a sense the horse is returning to nature and nature as he explained earlier about his opinion on nature. Both of these quotes are related to the premise of nature and god the reason they relate because they both explain how god created nature and how nature is all around us. The premise of nature and god has many pages and quotes where it is supported but other premises in thoreau’s writing support another transcendentalist premise known as self reliance.
Self reliance is another big premise in Thoreau’s writing for transcendentalism and has almost the same amount of relevance in the writing as the other premise nature and god. ”I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not …show more content…
Thoreau talks about how he goes into to woods to build his life on the simplistic necessities that any human needs so he can live a “spartan like” life. This really supports self reliance because he even talks about how he is getting away from people and living a mile away from the nearest town just so he can live his simplistic self reliant lifestyle. This quote was longer but had a lot of evidence and speaking as to how it supports the premise. This next quote is shorter but still supports the transcendentalist premise just as well. ” Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.” )lines 57-58 from where i lived and what i lived for). Thoreau is saying that everyone wants to run through life quickly that they will starve before they are even hungry. The quote talks about how we live our lives in such hurry that we don't slow down and think about what we eat or when we eat because we follow the social norms of what we should eat and when we should eat so thoreau's goes into the woods and lives by himself straying away from the societal norms. Both these quotes from thoreau's writing are big pieces of evidence to explain the premise of self reliance because in both he talks about how he strays away from society to live on his own and how that is more beneficial than following in what others do in a long convoluted kind of