Beauty In Walden, By Henry David Thoreau

Prompt #1:

“Of incredible, astonishing, or exaggerated nature”. According to the online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, this is the definition of fabulous. In Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, he talks about how reality is fabulous. This statement is correct because the beauty in life is what makes it incredible. This is supported when Ralph Waldo Emerson talks about beauty everywhere in Nature. THe beauty contributed to nature make the world fabulous. Consequently, every part of this surrounding world holds beauty, and it is easy to find to find elements that prove the fabulousness of this world.
Beauty can appear in every aspect of reality. Emerson, a transcendentalist author, touches the subject of beauty in Nature. He describes how “nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere” (Emerson, “Nature”). Emerson is saying that nature is alway beautiful and beauty is in everything. Nature is spectacularly beautiful. Although she can be rough and unforgiving, she shows a resilient beauty in every flower and strike of lighting. By using the word “undress” he is giving nature a human-like characteristic that shows how strong her influence is in the world. Emerson’s

choice to describe the beauty as “breaking” in, show how beauty is found unexpectedly in the surrounding world. Nature’s astonishing beauty appears abundantly in this reality, showing exactly how fabulous it it.
Nature is incredibly beautiful, and this beauty brings forth what is truly fabulous. The author Henry David Thoreau show that “shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous” (Thoreau, Walden).The stars. The wind. The water. All of these are incredible parts of nature that hold beauty. The stars light the paths and a very large star, the sun, holds the key to life. Without the sun, this planet would be barren, just an uninhabitable rock floating alone in space. The wind has the ability to transport seed in order to begin new lives. It creates ripples in large fields of grass making them sway back and forth in a dance only by the wind. Water covers the planet with silent stillness or disruptive movement. Rivers carve through solid rock through thousands of years making veins that cover the land of Earth. Nature is truly fabulous by bringing life and character to this reality.
With the beauty in between the cracks of this reality, nature can show elements of true fabulousness. Emerson and Thoreau have realised the beauty and astonishing element that engulf this world. With theses ideas, the humans that live in this world will stop more and realise just how incredibly their surroundings are.

Prompt #3:
As I stand on a mountain top, the soft noises of the vast stretch forest surrounding me fill my ears.

The slight caress of the wind passes by my face, and the murmur of animals hum behind me. Quietly, I stand takeing in the breathless view of the mountain side as it plummets down from the small cliff I stand on. The fresh air filling my lungs. I become weightless. The winding mountainous trail lead to a small uranium mine that had been closed many years before. I separate from my sister, and I am alone. I begin to think of the transcendentalist view of self-reliance. The ability to be self-sufficient is an important concept that everyone should eventually learn, because it takes the burden off of other, supports independent thinking, and allows people to discover their place in

society.
Every human should be able to stand on their own, in some way, without relying on the people closest to them. The people in this world have their own problems and they don’t need unnecessary problems from others. People should be more independent in their thoughts and actions. When they are self-reliant, there is no one there to tell them what to do or how to think. People should eventually develop on their own thoughts about the world around them. With self-sufficiency people can discover their place in society. As I start becoming more independent I hope to discover my place in this world. I hope to make an impact in the engineering industry. This impact will also help the people in our world, and hopefully make it a better place. With my innovation of some kind I hope the bridge the gap between the environment and technology, making it so our advancements don't affect nature in a negative way. The connections within this world matter to me the most. The ones between people and the surrounding world. These connections lead to discoveries about my inner self, and that makes them very important.
Self-reliance is a skill that everyone should gain. It help those around them, encourages independence, and helps establish their societal position. If others were more self-reliance in their adulthood, and didn’t depend on those who surround them or govern them, the world would be healthier. There would be no debt or substance abuse. Everyone would able to look within themselves and find who they truly are, and not what they are told to be.