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Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. Walls traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious ...
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature.
David Thoreau, better known as Henry David Thoreau, was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, and naturalist. He was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts, and was the third of four children. Thoreau grew up in a family of modest means but received a good education, attending Harvard University from 1833 to 1837.
Sep 28, 2018 · Henry David Thoreau: A Life. Paperback – September 28, 2018. by Laura Dassow Walls (Author) 4.7 336 ratings. See all formats and editions. “Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.”. That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon.
Dec 6, 2011 · Civil Disobedience. Paperback – December 6, 2011. by Henry David Thoreau (Author) 4.6 166 ratings. See all formats and editions. Sparked by Thoreau’s outrage at American slavery and the American-Mexican war, Civil Disobedience is a call for every citizen to value his conscience above his government. Within this 19th century essay, Thoreau ...
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Jun 30, 2005 · Henry David Thoreau. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating upon the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being. He sought to revive a conception of philosophy as a way ...
Henry David Thoreau’s vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. ‘We need the tonic of wildness,’ Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature.
