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What do you know about the Transcendentalist?

I know that nature is a great aspect of transcendentalists. Emerson and Thoreau have both written about nature but in different ways. Emerson wrote about how man relates to nature and Thoreau (in Walden) wrote about how nature helped him build his own house near Lake Walden. Both of them agree that nature is art and since their soul is a part of the universe, which nature is a part of, they are a part of nature themselves.

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What do you still wonder?

What about nature makes transcendentalists write so much about it? Is it because it's a beautiful and innocent thing we take for granted or because it's just there and no one has really ever appreciated it before and they want to spread the word that nature is a beautiful thing and should be admired?