1. Transcendentalists: Original Hippies and Environmentalists By 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.