Humans and Nature Test (McCabe AmLit)

Who was Self-Reliance written by

Emerson

Who was Nature written by

Emerson

What is this from: To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,---that is genius.

Self-Reliance

What is this from: A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within

Self-Reliance

What is this from: envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide

Self-Reliance

What is this from: Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string

Self-Reliance

What is this from: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines

Self-Reliance

What is this from: In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life is always a child

Nature

What is this from: I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God

Nature

What is this from: it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both

Nature

Who was Walden written by

Thoreau

Who was Civil Disobedience written by

Thoreau

What is this from: Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Walden

Which Transcendentalist was taught by who?

Thoreau was a disciple of Emerson

Who is in the triangle of Transcendentalism and what are their roles?

Emerson (Thinker), Thoreau (Doer), Whitman (Singer)

What and where was Walden Pond?

Where Thoreau lived for 2 years in solitude and what Walden is based off of; on Emerson's land

What is this from: I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life

Walden

What is this from: keep your accounts on a thumbnail

Walden

What is this from: Our life is like a German Confederacy, made up of petty states, with boundary forever fluctuating

Walden

What is this from: We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us

Walden

What is this from: how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Walden

What is this from: If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be

Walden

What is this from: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer

Walden

What is this from: Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage

Walden

What is this from: The life in us is like the water in the river

Walden

What is this from: Only that day dawns to which we are awake

Walden

What is Emerson also referred to as

Buddha of the West

What is Emerson's "American Scholar" called

Declaration of Literary Independence

What was The Dial

major journal Transcendentalists were publishing in

Where was the heart of Transcendentalism

Concord, MA

What is regarded as the supreme work of Transcendentalist literature

Walden

Who was in the Transcendentalist Club

Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott, Fuller, and Ripley (Parker was also a key player in Transcendentalism, but not in the Transcendentalist Club)

What did the Transcendentalist Club stress

intuition, individuality, and self-reliance

Who wrote A White Heron

Sarah Orne Jewett

What is this from: listened to the thrushes with a heart that beat fast with pleasure. There was a stirring in the great boughs overhead

A White Heron

What is this from: the woman's heart, asleep in the child, was vaguely thrilled by a dream of love. Some premonition of that great power stirred and swayed these young foresters who traversed the solemn woodlands with soft-footed silent care.

A White Heron

What is this from: What a spirit of adventure, what wild ambition! What fancied triumph and delight and glory for the later morning when she could make known the secret! It was almost too real and too great for the childish heart to bear

A White Heron

What is this from: it must truly have been amazed that morning through all its ponderous fram as it felt this determined spark of human spirit creeping and climbing from higher brant to branch

A White Heron

What is this from: The birds sang louder and louder. At last the sun came up bewilderingly bright

A White Heron

What is this from: Bring your gifts and graces and tell your secrets to this lonely country child!

A White Heron

What is this from: Under the shade of this tree of the great Peace we spread the soft white feather down of the globe thistle as seats for you

The Iroquois Constitution

Who is the main character in A White Heron

Sylvia

What is this from: if their minds are clean and they are obedient and promise to obey the wishes of the confederate council, they shall be welcomed to take shelter beneath the Tree of the Long Leaves

The Iroquois Constitution

What is this from: It shall be a serious wrong for anyone to lead a lord into trivial affairs, for the people must ever hold their lords high in estimation out of respect to their honorable positions

The Iroquois Constitution

What is this from: you shall be proof against anger, offensive actions and criticism. Your heart shall be filled with peace and good will and your mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the confederacy

The Iroquois Constitution

What is this from: Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground--the unborn of the future nation

The Iroquois Constitution

In the Iroquois Constitution, what unites the Iroquois people?

Tree of Great Peace

What principles did Emerson help ingrain in America's identity

individuality, independence, and an appreciation for the wonders of nature

What job did Emerson have before becoming a writer and why did he quit

minister; he was dissatisfied with the restrictions of Unitarianism

What is Civil Disobedience about

war between Mexico and the US over a boundary dispute, and how Thoreau and many other Americans refused to pay their taxes in protest

What does the word Transcendentalism mean

to climb over

What does Transcendentalism stress

beauty of nature, divinity of all people, and the importance of the human spirit

How is Transcendentalism different from Puritanism

Transcendentalism: relationship between God, nature, and humanity, integrity of the individual

Puritanism: God is distinct from man and nature, live with humility and righteousness to achieve God's grace