“Live in each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. They also believed in the power of individualism and the importance of living a moral and ethical life. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. Transcendentalists believed that the human spirit was capable of transcending the physical world and finding spiritual truth, and that this truth could be found in nature and within oneself. Walden ( / wldn / first published in 1854 as Walden or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. This philosophy was a profound reaction to the growing industrialization and materialism of the time. The American Transcendentalist movement was a philosophical and literary movement that began in the early 19th century, largely based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau and his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He wanted to escape from the hustle and bustle of city life and to focus on his writing and philosophy. He believed that by living in Walden he could better understand himself, his beliefs, and the world around him. Henry David Thoreau wanted to live deliberately, to examine his life and its purpose, to explore the idea of living in harmony with nature. “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.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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