Henry David Thoreau

Born

in Concord, Massachusetts, The United States

July 12, 1817

Died

May 06, 1862

Website

http://www.walden.org

Genre

Philosophy, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

Influences

Robert Ingersoll, Charles Darwin, John Burroughs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...more

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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.

In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from ...more

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	Walden 3.78 avg rating — 165,198 ratings — published 1854 — 3101 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, W.S. Merwin (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 34,885 ratings — published 1849 — 227 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Disobedience and Other Essays 4.07 avg rating — 15,805 ratings — published 1849 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Disobedience 3.96 avg rating — 12,761 ratings — published 1849 — 1435 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau, Peter Matthiessen 3.94 avg rating — 4,566 ratings — published 1854 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking 3.86 avg rating — 6,382 ratings — published 1861 — 208 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau, Robert F. Sayre (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 2,125 ratings — published 1849 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau, Charles Gurche (Photographer), Dona Budd 3.76 avg rating — 2,046 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau, Joseph J. Moldenhauer (Editor), Paul Theroux (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 1,119 ratings — published 1864 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 3.84 avg rating — 990 ratings — published 1854 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

tags: truth, values

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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: writing

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

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How Green Was My Valley by How Green Was My Valley

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The Shadow-Line by Joseph Conrad

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann

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Selected Short Stories of John O'Hara by John O'Hara

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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

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The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse

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