The connection between this man, Timothy Tredwell and the ideas of American Transcendentalism is the unity and the beliefs of both humans and animals being good, and being able to live together in harmony. Timothy believed that he could live in the wild with wild bears and this was evident to be true within the documentary for the most part. His desire to go out and into the wild, is also apart of the American Transcendentalism beliefs.
The documentary is very inspiring and heart breaking. Many people believed him to be stupid and careless. Which to an extent he was because he didn't care about boundaries of the bears and protecting himself with the usage of sprays or those types of things. Yet, to see a human play and be so intimate with an animal that is known to be a "beast" is something that we as humans do want to see. It's the impossible. And for him to cross that boundary and to show us that "hey, they're not so bad after all" is pretty incredible. And there are many people besides Tim that do play and have that type of relationship with bears, but most of the time, these animals are born and raised around humans. Their natural surroundings are shifted, and even so, they sometimes turn on their caretaker.
There are limits to this reality of being able to communicate and play with wild animals. As humans we have an unconscious understanding to stay away from animals. We have an unconscious voice telling us that animals, especially animals like bears, are not to be played with. That we need to arm ourselves and always be cautious around them because we don't know how to talk or see eye to eye with those types of animals.
The ideas of the natural and the humanistic lives living in unity are ideas that will always be limited.
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