Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau aspired to write captivating literature by simply traveling and adventuring in his surroundings for inspiration, one of his groundbreaking pieces 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 questions, economic common sense, nonconformism and grateful observation of natural world". (Henry David Thoreau 961) Resistance to Civil Government was another important literary piece written by Thoreau, in this literary piece it talks about Thoreau, after spending a night in prison for not paying the poll tax, not because it was him. The piece Walden is a playground for transcendentalism for Thoreau simply because Thoreau lived in nature and was exploring based on his life and was trying to look through them and find his motifs that embraced peace with its earthly ways and abstract quality of transcendentalism. Thoreau wanted to incorporate all the basic principles into everyday life; he wanted to taste and feel the principles in the air around him. Thoreau stated in Walden: “I went into the wood 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 was about to die, to find that I had not lived . I didn't want to live what wasn't life, living is so dear; nor did I want to resign myself, unless it was absolutely necessary. I wanted to live deeply and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so vigorously and spartanly as to rout everything that was not life, to cut a wide furrow and shave it down to the very bottom, to put life in a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms. and, if he turned out to be mean, why then take all the genuine meanness out of him and publish his meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it.” (Wendy