transcendentalists

The transcendentalists were a cult-like group of people who found God through nature. They had many beliefs based on the ideas of anti-conformity and simplicity. One of the leaders of this group, Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote many books, poems, stories, and maxims about his beliefs. Another famous transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau, wrote a book about an experiment he performed in which he lived in the woods with just the basic necessities. In the novel he preaches a lot about God and his simplistic and non-conformist beliefs, which I somewhat agree with.
There are a few ideas that I agree with the transcendentalists on. These are all written in some of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s maxims. Two based on the same idea are “My life is for itself and not for a spectacle” and “Insist on yourself; never imitate�...