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Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

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The Transcendentalist movement and the Rationalist Movement were in constant battle between ideas. The Rationalist Movement was a philosophical movement that focused greatly on elements of intellect and reasoning: the clear opposite of Transcendentalism. In Transcendentalism movement is even be attributed to being formed in response to the Rationalist movement, showing how strongly people felt about these conflicting ideas.

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The Women's Rights Movement was another force directing the formation of the Transcendentalist movement with writers such as Margaret Fuller who wrote on subjects that complimented both the Transcendentalist movement and the Women's Rights Movement. The Women's Rights advocates and Transcendentalist advocates both agreed on basic human rights for all people, and from that they complement each other.

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The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant movement where there was a great increase of membership in these churches. It's important to know this to understand why Transcendentalist felt the need to respond with their own ideals. This Great Awakening was also concentrated in similar areas of the U.S., but its values are completely different, with more emphasis on having one god, and also more emphasis on the super-natural

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The most prominent woman in the Transcendentalist movement had to be Margaret Fuller. Aside from her contributions to the movement, she was a prominent figure in the advocacy for women's rights and wrote the book "Women in the Nineteenth Century". She was a highly educated journalist, teacher and critic who helped develop the Transcendentalist movement.

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Emerson, the other prominent leader of the Transcendentalist movement,  contributed heavily to spreading the message of the movement. He wrote many important essays which ranged from topics such as nature to topics of individualism, again restated the thread of ideals that runs through the Transcendentalist movement.

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Thoreau was one or the more prominent leaders of the movement and he contributing by his many writings and poems which all relate to the themes of Transcendentalism: Nature, Individualism, and Minimalism. An example of his work is "Walden" which is one of his most famous writings.

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Some key figures of this movement include

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Margaret Fuller

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Before we can start talking about Transcendentalism it is necessary to know what that daunting word means

Transcendentalism: "an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.

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Transcendentalism came about through a response to rationalism, and starkly contrasted it by the views of nature, individualism, and minimalism. It's necessary to know the connection and history of different movements around the time of Transcendentalism to give perspective on the movement as a whole.Transcendentalism developed in a pot of different social movements, of which include the Women's Rights movement, the Second Great Awakening, and also the Rationalist movement.

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The American Renaissance was a literary movement capitalized by its emphasis on humanism and its contrast to Calvinism (Second Great Awakening). This Renaissance was mainly driven by Transcendentalist writers, which is why Emerson and Thoreau are considered pioneers of both the Transcendentalist movement and of this literary Renaissance.