Thoreau

      In Walden, Thoreau talks about how he went into the woods to escape and learn for himself. As Emerson had mentioned in some of his texts, escaping into nature is a way to escape societal influences and its teachings, allowing one to leave their mind unlimited and to reach its full extent. Thoreau then leaves into a forest where he seeks to live a lifestyle temporarily as he does not want to grow to accustomed to him and fall into regular patterns like society as shown in the quote "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life....".(Thoreau 204) He lives in a small structure in the woods, where he realizes he falls into a conformity, paths of where he walks and what he does, thus making him want to leave nature to achieve a more fresh view on the world and a way of thinking. He founds a battle between ants over food and realized the similarity between the two ants and humans and ways that they can interact with each other for similar reasons as humans. He realizes the simplicity of life is a great achievement that other organisms have achieved, and he thinks that humans should do so too to have little to know influence in their actions and thoughts.