Transcendentalism Essay

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to teach himself what to do. The other boy is merely a parrot mimicking the strategy of someone else, he hasn’t had to apply his own thoughts to the work, and he has only had to copy someone else’s work.
Thoreau emphasizes his point on learning through experience and nature throughout his book. “But while we are confined to books…we are in danger of forgetting the language which all things and events speak…”(p 79). Here he says if we limit our source of knowledge to only books we can lose our touch and relationship with nature, nature is like a universal language that we can not stray from because it is what connects everything. While Thoreau was in Walden he made sure to keep his connection with nature. “I did not read books the first summer; I hoed beans.” (p79). He felt that with all of the time he had it was more valuable for him to connect with nature than it was for him to read and study. Emerson, Thoreau’s friend and another transcendentalist, had very similar ...

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