Thoreau

Thoreau has been know as the student, the practitioner of Emerson's. Throughout his writing it is apparent that he truly learned from Emerson's work. Ralph Waldo Emerson had been out in jail on an account during his life, he was in for not paying his tax, although it had only been a night he learned a variety from it. " I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar." ( Emerson, 214). In this Emerson is behind bars, but he doesn't feel trapped, he does not worry about what is to come because he is not worried. From Thoreau he explains that " Time is but the stream I go a fishing in"( Thoreau, 205). In both of these situations both emerson and thoreau feel free and unconfined.
Another situation when Thoreau had been following what Emerson had written is when he went to the Walden Pond, he got away from society. "The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other." (Emerson, 180). From this Emerson explains that if you can get away from what society tells you, and you love the nature, when you are back in the " real world" your senses will be full adjusted. " 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..." (Thoreau, 204). Thoreau followed this, and went to nature, he wanted to adjust his sense and learn morea bout himself as a person.