Henry David Thoreau
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born
July 12, 1817
died
May 06, 1862
gender
male
place of birth
Concord, Massachusetts, The United States
genre
Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs
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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau)was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for 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.
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures...more
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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau
— Henry David Thoreau
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
— Henry David Thoreau
— Henry David Thoreau
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"I went 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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)
— Henry David Thoreau (Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)
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