Transcendentalism is the understanding of the idea that the people have a deep relation with nature and to see beyond the natural world. It basically means when one communicates and finds themselves through nature. The authors who wrote greatly about transcendentalism are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. This is how transcendentalism came to be. The transcendental thoughts include: non-conformity, self-reliance, free thought, confidence, and the importance of nature. Non-conformity is the failure or the refusal to conform. One example is from Lobo James, “I don’t like to go with the flow because most rivers end in a waterfall with sharp rocks at the bottom.” This means that don’t let anyone control one’s destiny. If one followed
