Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau aspired to write captivating literature simply by traveling and venturing into his near surroundings for inspiration. One of his revolutionary parts of literature ever written by Thoreau is Walden. In Walden, Thoreau showed many different sides of himself, as stated: "Thoreau presented himself in Walden as an exemplary figure who, by virtue of his philosophical questioning, his economic common sense, his non-conformism and his appreciable observation of the natural world. » (Henry David Thoreau 961) Resistance to Civil Government was another important piece of literature written by Thoreau, in this piece of literature he talks about Thoreau, after spending a night in jail for not paying his poll tax, not because he. playground for transcendentalism for Thoreau simply because Thoreau lived in nature and he explored according to his life and he tried to go through them and find his ground embracing peace with his earthly ways and abstract quality of transcendentalism. Thoreau wanted to integrate all the basic principles into everyday life; he wanted to taste and feel the principles present in the air around him. Thoreau said in Walden: "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to face only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach me, and not , when I died, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, to live is so dear; nor did I want to practice resignation unless it was absolutely necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so solidly and spartanly that it would rout all that was not life, to cut a wide swath and shave close, to push life into a corner , and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it turned out to be petty, why then grasp all its genuine wickedness and publish its wickedness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience and to be able to give a faithful account of it. (Wendy