American Transcendentalism is a philosophical and literary movement which took place during the late 1820s and 1830s. ... It is not a rejection of the existance of God, but a preference to explain an individual and the world in terms of an individual; - the structure of the universe literally duplicates the structure of the individual self-all knowledge, therefore, begins with self-knowledge. ... Thoreau felt one must behave as morally toward nature as toward men, and considered the wasteful cutting of forests, for example, to be inhuman. ...

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