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 H ...more

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	Walden 3.79 avg rating — 112,508 ratings — published 1854 — 166 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) 3.96 avg rating — 27,752 ratings — published 2007 — 236 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 4.06 avg rating — 12,976 ratings — published 1995 — 47 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 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,010 ratings — published 1854 — 56 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 3.96 avg rating — 3,251 ratings — published 1862 — 167 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 — 5,588 ratings — published 1849 — 207 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) 4.23 avg rating — 1,816 ratings — published 1849 — 8 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 3.75 avg rating — 1,803 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
	On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 4.06 avg rating — 1,011 ratings	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) 3.84 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 1864 — 78 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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The Journal of Henry D.Thoreau (2 books)
by Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey (Editor), F.H. Allen (Editor)
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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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