Solitude ¡°I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.¡± -Henry David Thoreau Transcendentalism, according to www. Dictionary.com, means a literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that …showed first 75 words of 1009 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1009 total…serene and healthy life. To be alone was something unpleasant.¡± -Henry David Thoreau Today many people think of being alone as something boring, or a waste of time. Thoreau, Emerson, and many others viewed being alone as a necessity. We have finally achieved what Emerson wanted us to achieve and America is independent from Britain. We are self reliant as a country. Yet many still are not happy. Emerson must be spinning in his grave¡¦.