As most naturalists do, Henry David Thoreau detailed his two-year nature experiment with extensive observations in his book Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. But Thoreau was much more than an ordinary environmentalist: he was a revolutionary. Through transcendentalism, simplicity, and art Thoreau invites readers to contemplate a paradigm shift in their existence toward an authentic self. To do this, individuals must move away from a life defined by society and into a life that is true to them. Issues a call to action to consider a sustainable and virtuous ideology for cultivating nature. Thoreau was a pioneering transcendentalist. He believed that God was in every aspect of nature; wildlife is a reflection of divine creation. Thoreau's ideology was radical at this time when Calvinist and Trinitarian religious views were common among the Massachusetts upper class. Transcendentalism contradicted their view that inspiration could only be obtained miraculously, directly from God rather than naturally. In the section of Walden entitled The Bean-Field we see his direct connections between the land and spirituality. Even non-living forces are a replica of God "The morning wind blows forever, the poem of creation is unbroken;" (Walden, 55) His green beans and peas humbled Thoreau. She found it exhilarating to work with her plants seeing “the results of my presence and influence” (Walden, 101). He explains how nature "attached me to the earth, and thus I gained strength like Antaeus." (Walden,100). Here he is compared to the Greek mythological giant grappling with Hercules. Explain how plants can teach him more about himself rather than the plant. He asks us to reflect on the “intimate and cute...... center of the card......every morning has been a cheerful invitation to make my life as simple, and I might say innocent, as Nature itself. ” (Walden, 58) Thoreau's view on simplicity and agriculture was radical because they are certainly not the product of the mind of an ordinary small New England farmer. Typically these farmers farmed for seed and profit, Thoreau was just trying to grow enough to sustain himself.Thoreau's attitude of living deliberately, spiritually and exposing the severe beauty of nature were radical ideologies in his time way the land is perceived and cultivated. Thoreau's radical view on farming was a mechanism for distinct social change that included attitudes such as transcendentalism, farming as art, and agriculture as simplistic...