During the Romantic era, many Americans responded positively and enthusiastically to writers’ thoughts about the connection between humans and the rest of nature. What is Americans' relationship to nature today? What would Thoreau, Emerson, and the Fireside Poets say about the ways in which Americans tend to interact with our natural surroundings?

Identify two examples from modern American life that show how connected (or disconnected) we are to nature in the ways described by the American Romantics. Then select one quote from an American Romantic writer that relates to each of your examples. Explain how the quote relates to the example. Is the example evidence of a strong Romantic connection or a weak Romantic connection to nature?

Intuition is the ability to acknowledge and understand things in an instant, rather than having the need to reason and think more on it. This ability to have an instinctive feeling and understanding of things without the need to reason it logically enables people to come to decisions sooner.

American romantic writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau emphasized a great deal on the importance of intuition, nature, and imagination in their works. They focused and deal a lot about these elements in their works, presenting a close connection with nature and away from reason. For them, they believed that reason contradicts and prevents a man from using his imagination and thus prevents the use of his full ability.