Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau is known for being a student of Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy of transcendentalism.  Thoreau created his own ideas and perspectives of transcendentalism in several different ways.  One of those ways included the fact that they would escape from society.  "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."-Thoreau.  This explains that he would escape from society and go off on his own to learn about everything that was there to be known.  Henry David Thoreau would almost imitate Emerson in some ways.  Since they believed in the same subject they would explain similar things that they'd discover outside of society and in nature.  Another way that Henry David Thoreau was a student of Ralph Waldo Emerson's philosophy is because they would create similar essays and produce similar thoughts.  They agreed upon most everything.  The two of them would discover things that were "out of this world" but were similar to each others discoveries.  The way the both described the things they had seen or done or experienced had similar meaning behind them.  Thoreau definitely followed in Emerson's footsteps.  Thoreau had similar experiences to Emerson and I believe that this is because Thoreau learned about transcendentalism through Emerson.  So therefore created similar thoughts and experiences that related to the philosopher's.