Civil Disobedience
“They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses if men. What sort of life were that to live?”--HDT
“I went in 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.”--HDT
Importance of Nature
Non-Conformity
Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.  ~Emerson
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams...he will meet with a success.” -- HDT
Confidence
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. --HDT
Anti-Materialism
Self Reliance
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” --Emerson
Because the people then they understood what we have since forgot:
That governments will only work for their own benefit.
And I’d rather stand up naked against the elements alone
Then give the hollow men the right to enter in my home.
"Take most people, they're crazy about cars.  They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer.  I don't even like old cars.  I mean they don't even interest me.  I'd rather have a goddam horse.  A horse is at least human, for God's sake."  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Transcendentalism