As most naturalists do, Henry David Thoreau detailed his two-year experiment in nature with extensive observations in his book Walden; Or Life in the Woods. But Thoreau was more than just an environmentalist, he was a revolutionary. Through transcendentalism, simplicity, and art, Thoreau calls readers to consider 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. It issues a call to action to consider a sustainable and virtuous ideology for cultivating nature. Thoreau was a pioneering transcendentalist. He believed that God is present in all aspects of nature; wildlife is a reflection of divine creation. Thoreau's ideology was radical in this era when Calvinist and Trinitarian religious views were commonplace among upper-middle class Massachusetts. Transcendentalism contradicted their view that inspiration could only be obtained by miracle, directly from God rather than from nature. In Walden's section 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 uninterrupted; » (Walden, 55) His beans and peas humiliated Thoreau. He found it exhilarating to work with his plants and see “the results of my presence and influence” (Walden, 101). He explains how nature “attached me to the earth and thus I acquired strength like Antaeus”. (Walden, 100). Here he compares himself to the Greek mythological giant who fought against Hercules. He explains how plants can teach him more about himself rather than the plant. He asks us to reflect on the "intimate and cute environment of paper... Every morning was a joyful invitation to make my life equal in simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature itself." » (Walden, 58) Thoreau's view of simplicity and agriculture was radical because it was certainly not the product of the mind of an ordinary New England small farmer. Typically these farmers farmed for seed and profit, Thoreau only sought to farm enough to support himself. Thoreau's attitudes of living deliberately, spiritualizing, and exhibiting the stark beauty of nature were radical ideologies in his time. His goal was to call on his neighbors to reconsider their lives. As an agricultural reformer, he worked to change the way land was viewed and used. Thoreau's radical view of animal husbandry was a distinct mechanism of social change including attitudes such as transcendentalism, animal husbandry as art, and agriculture as simplistic..