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Byron Banuelos
12/11/2013
Ms. Arce

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1.Transcendentalist means The quality or state of being transcendental. It means to when someone finds themself through nature and being in solitude.

2.One of the most used quotations in the night thoreau spent in jail is "Retirement? What an absurd idea! Why spend the best part of your life earning money so that you can enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it? Why work like a dog so you can pant for a moment or two before you die?. I chose this as my number one because of its great meaning. Why work during the prime of your life just so you can spend it doing nothing? This quote's meaning is very powerful to me. My second choice is "Henry, if love is all around you, like huckleberries, why do you pick loneliness?". I choose this quote as my second because of its truism. This quote is correct, love is all around us. The emotional atmosphere this quote created for me was both a sense of awakening and dissapointment. My third choice out of the eight is "You want to be a matchmaker, Lydian? Find me something innocent and natural and uncomplicated. A shrub-oak. A cloud. A leaf lost in the snow." I choose this as my fourth quote because it has a meaning relating to transcendentalism. When you transcend you are 'one' with nature, and nature is simple and calm, unlike the heavily populated cities. My fifth pick is "I don't know you, Mr. Congressman. I doubt if the people of Illinois will re-elect you, because you refused to 'go along.' But I shall remember who you are, Congressman." This quotes shows the problems

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