There are 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 60 minutes per hour, and 60 seconds per minute. As busy as we perceive ourselves to be, we have more time than anything in the world. With all that time however, we take for granted the amazing world we have all been given. This theory was used in both Transcendentalists and Richard Feyman's teachings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the most famous Transcendentalists, encourages all of us to find, "an original relation to the universe" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Russell Goodman). Through the observation of nature, Emerson's creativity flourished and thus his writing became a second voice for nature. Emerson believed nature held the key to individualism and by finding your place in nature you too could flourish along with your creativity. If you were to look at any of Emerson's masterpiece writings, you would see how much nature inspired him. Nature fed his creativity and encouraged him to write beautiful pieces of work that are still used today to get kids outside to find their own place in the world. What we can all take away from Emerson's hard work is that we should not take our beautiful world for granted. You should take 60 seconds of your day to step outside and be inspired by the nature that surrounds us and you too could become a Transcendentalist.
The beauty of science is a concept not many of us understand, but Richard Feyman lived and breathed this concept. Richard Feyman brought up a scenario of a person holding a flower. If that person were to show an artist that flower they could point out how beautiful it is just by looking at it. However, if that person were to show a scientist that flower they would pull the flower apart having it become dull instantly. Richard Feyman couldn't disagree anymore with the scenario. Richard Feyman speaks for the scientists and states that because he is a scientist he could find more ways of why that flower is beautiful. He believes that beauty doesn't just stop at this dimension. As a scientist , he could look inside of that flower and see it's cells and more, making it that more beautiful. Richard Feyman teaches us all to go outside and indulge in nature, but not by just looking at it, but by being a part of it. We shouldn't see things as one dimensional. We should look to discover something new and by looking at nature in all dimensions your creativity will flourish along with your sense of nature. By opening your eyes to a whole new world, you open your life to unlimited possibilities.
Nature is all around us yet we never seem to have time to indulge in all of its beauty. Transcendentalists and Richard Feyman teach us to find ourselves in nature. Their lives have been shaped by nature and the creativity nature has brought them. They too want us to experience all the world has to offer by just talking that step outside to discover our surroundings. Transcendentalists and Richard Feyman both inform each other on different ways to discover nature. Transcendentalists encourage you to put more of a mark on the world to call it your own. Meanwhile, Richard Feyman encourages to discover more than what is in front of you, look in depth to find the true beauty in nature. This relationship between Transcendentalists and Richard Feyman matters to me because I too love nature but have gotten so caught up in school and my social life that I have let nature slip between my fingers. This relationship has made me realize how much I need nature back in my life, especially for humanities. It will help to keep my creativity flowing and to help me find who I truly am for my college essays. I never realized how much I took nature for granted until now. From this point forward, I will carry the Transcendentalists and Richard Feyman's teachings with me to help my creativity flourish and to look at the world in different dimensions.
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