Transcendentalism

          My goal is to focus on statements that stood out to me from Thoreau's Where I Lived and What I Lived For. "Our life is frittered away by detail."  "For a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.""To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip" "I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute." I also want to analyze his mindset that we must live with deliberation. Because he so strongly feels that humanity has destroyed itself by fussing over every last detail, I can branch into his rights and wrongs. Thoreau, having decided that we need to simplify, gave us an idea of becoming one with nature, more so than we already have. To some, his idea seems to regard in similarity to the lifestyle of a hippie. But in all reality, he is morally thinking. If we don't heed his warnings to have minimal complications and worries of power, we may very likely crash and burn. I think I can morph these ideas into my own and analyze Thoreau's state of mind and how it came to be.