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Henry David Thoreau

12 July 1817 - 6 May 1862

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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  • Cover of: Henry David Thoreau Collection: Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking, the Maine Woods, Cape Cod

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Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, American Authors, Natural history, Wilderness areas, Description and travel, Biography, Solitude, Civil disobedience, Social life and customs, Homes and haunts, Nature, Authors, american, Natural history, united states, Quotations, American literature, Authors, biography, Correspondence, Resistance to Government, Quotations, maxims, Travel, Diaries, Fiction, Massachusetts, social life and customs, History, Naturalists
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Massachusetts, Walden Woods (Mass.), United States, Walden Woods, Cape Cod (Mass.), New England, Concord River (Mass.), Cape Cod, Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.), Piscataquis County (Me.), Alabama, Concord, Maine, Owl Creek Bridge, Québec (Province), Mallard residence, Milford meeting house, Andover, Barbados, China, Concord River, Eastern Europe, England, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Minnesota
People
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), John Brown (1800-1859), Peyton Farquhar, Elizabeth, Mr. Hooper, Brently Mallard, Devil, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Richards, Abigail Williams, Amanda Wingfield, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, Jim O'Connor, John Hale, John Hathorne
Time
19th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1692, 1861-65, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1837-1861, 1844-1860, 19e siècle, 1600s, 1764-1850, 1783-1865, 1800-1900, 1843-1863, 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
  • Henry David Henry David Thoreau
  • Henry David THOREAU
  • Henry David Thoreau Thoreau
  • Henry Thoreau Walden
  • (mei) Suoluo (Thoreau, Henry David
  • henry david thoreau
  • David, Thoreau, Henry

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December 5, 2023 Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten remove inventaire.io
February 12, 2023 Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten add IDs
August 15, 2022 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
January 6, 2022 Edited by dcapillae remove wrong alternatives names
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import