Thoreau became a believer of transcendentalism while following Emerson. In “Civil Disobedience” and “Walden”, Thoreau chooses to live with only the things in life that are absolutely necessary. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Thoreau says how he wanted to live simply and not discover when he dies that he never truly lived. He believed that to truly live, you have to live on your own with only basic necessities and without any societal impact. By doing this he believed he could find himself and make peace with himself. Emerson was a great role model for Thoreau and his actions.
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