The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail

    "Don't just remember what I said. Remember what I'm talking about" 
                                                                                        -Henry David Thoreau


      As I sit here, typing this out and slurping on some lime Jell-O (delicious!) I think that Henry David must of been a man who wanted people to understand him more than anything. I think this quote demonstrates, or transcends, transcendentalism by showing how remembering opposed to actually knowing and understanding something are two separate things. When you understand something, you get the whole message, the content of what it is about. But when you simple remember, you could just be spewing out what you heard and not truly get the concept. This shows transcendentalism because transcendentalism is believing that everything is connected somehow. Maybe the way you view something once you get to understand what their talking about leads to thinking broader about the whole picture. Not just memorizing and repeating someones thoughts.