Connection and influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson

-Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are considered two of the most influential and inspiring transcendentalist writers of their time.
-In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay "Self Reliance" and Henry David Thoreau’s essay "Resistance to Civil Government" Civil Disobedience both transcendentalist thinkers speak about being individual and what reforms and changes need to be made in society.
-Henry and Emerson both developed and attacked the dominant religions, political, and cultural values of American society.
-Thoreau lived with emerson