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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: La desobediència civil

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  • Cover of: Bit of Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry D. Thoreau and Isaac T. Hecker

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  • Cover of: Walden, or, Life in the Woods

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  • Cover of: Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

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  • Cover of: Walden or Life in the Woods: A Book by Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. the Text Is a Reflection upon Simple Living in Natural Surroundings. the Work Is Part Personal Declaration of Independence, Social Experiment, and Voyage of Spiritual Discovery

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  • Cover of: Transcendentalism Collection: Thoreau's Walden, Walking and Civil Disobedience, Emerson's Self-Reliance, Nature and the American Scholar, Bryant's Thanatopsis, and Hawthorne's Artist of the Beautiful

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  • Cover of: Familiar letters of Henry David Thoreau

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  • Cover of: In wildness is the preservation of the world, from 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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