Period 4 Transcendentalism
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- Thomas Cole! You're the founder of the Hudson River school.
- Yes, I am and you must be the famous Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- I love your expression of nature. Its how I want others to experience nature.
- Well, thank you. Your ideas of individualism and nature with your Transcendentalism is what inspired me to found the school and paint.
- Well did you know that my Transcendentalist ideas were inspired by the British Romanticism. But I didn't want to be like the British so I made it my own.
- Well, I show people natures true beauty and you tell people to look to nature and to be there own person with individualism.
- I believe that people need to go back to nature and to get away from life's institutions with governments.
- I agree people are too deep into politics and rely on the system. People need to be self reliant and experience the outside world as themselves.
- I just hope that we as human beings grow and don't become what we hate. We need to stay unique and grow the US's culture and society.
- Thank you. I hope we meet again to exchange our ideas.
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