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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

Born 12 July 1817
Died 6 May 1862

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  • Cover of: Walden

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  • Cover of: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: Large Print

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  • Cover of: The writings of Henry David Thoreau.
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American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

Born 12 July 1817
Died 6 May 1862

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Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, American Authors, Wilderness areas, Natural history, Solitude, Biography, Civil disobedience, Description and travel, Natural history, united states, Authors, american, Nature, Social life and customs, Authors, biography, Homes and haunts, Massachusetts, social life and customs, Quotations, American literature, Resistance to Government, Correspondence, Philosophy, Quotations, maxims, Travel, Diaries, Philosophy, american, History

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Massachusetts, Walden Woods (Mass.), Walden Woods, United States, New England, Cape Cod (Mass.), Concord River (Mass.), Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.), Cape Cod, Piscataquis County (Me.), Concord, Maine, Québec (Province), Alabama, Owl Creek Bridge, Canada, Concord River, Minnesota, Missouri, Saint Louis, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, England

People

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), John Brown (1800-1859), Peyton Farquhar, Amanda Wingfield, Devil, Elizabeth, Jim O'Connor, Laura Wingfield, Mr. Hooper, Tom Wingfield, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Colonel Killigrew, Dr. Heidegger, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, John Hale

Time

19th century, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 19e siècle, American Civil War, 1692, 1837-1861, 1844-1860, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1600s, 1764-1850, 1783-1865, 1800-1900, 1843-1863, 1849-1860, 1854, 1927, A trip with his brother on 1839, Civil War, December, Jin dai, Siglo XIX, carnival

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  • Henry D. Thoreau
  • Henry Thoreau
  • (mei) Suoluo

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February 15, 2025 Edited by dcapillae update alternative names
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