what does Henry Thoreau have to do with transcendentalism?

Answer 1

Well - he was one for a start.

Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau was one of the great Transcendentalists and espoused some of the ideas associated with this movement. Works such as “Resistance to Civil Government,” for example, demonstrate the value he placed both on nature and the individual. Perhaps more than Emerson, however, Thoreau was a social activist, particularly in the area of abolition. For this reason, along with his willingness to immerse himself in nature at Walden Pond, we might think of him as “Transcendentalism in Action.” Like Emerson, too, Thoreau was a master prose stylist and wrote a number of sentences that have endured for more than a century. Indeed, along with Emerson, Mark Twain, and Benjamin Franklin, he is one of the most widely quoted American writers.

Answer 2

If it's their dream ,you have let them fulfilled