Transcendentalism was a movement that began in the early 1830s in the eastern united states. The people who were a part of this movement are usually thought of as crazy, and are known for their spiritual connection to nature. Many transcendentalists from the time wrote about their spiritual journeys, how there were responding to the world they are living in, and how they were looking to change society. Some well known authors include Henry Thoreau, Ralph Emerson, and Walt Whitman. These men have all been quoted multiple times on their transcendentalist drives in their writing. The men all wrote about the connection that ALL humans had with nature, and believed all people should go out and connect with god through nature. Walt whitman was quoted in his writing “Song Of Myself” saying “ For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” The transcendentalists believed that everybody was entitled to their own beauty, and the no one human owned it, but beauty is in the eye off the beholder and Ralph Emerson went more in depth with it, saying “ All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is Taste. Others have the same love in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is Art.” …show more content…
A lot of them became hermits to get closer to nature hoping to change the way we lived as people. Henry Thoreau, in his writing, said, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” He is saying that the true way to life a full life is to be connected with nature and believed everybody should be living the way they