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    Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best...
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    is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit...
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    Walden (redirect from Economy (Thoreau))
    the Woods) is an 1854 book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural...
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    Sophia Elizabeth Thoreau (1819–1876) was an American editor. As the sister of Henry David Thoreau and his close collaborator, she was responsible for the...
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    based in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, at the house where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. With members from all 50 states and countries around...
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  • Henry David Thoreau: A Life is a 2017 biography of Henry David Thoreau by Laura Walls. Birkett, Christopher (2018). "Review of Henry David Thoreau: A Life"...
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    Walden Pond (category Henry David Thoreau)
    National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its association with the writer Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), whose two years living in a cabin on its shore provided...
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    Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written...
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    life of the title character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to his night spent in a jail in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau was jailed for refusing to...
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  • Walden Woods Project (category Henry David Thoreau)
    organization located in Lincoln, Massachusetts, devoted to the legacy of Henry David Thoreau and the preservation of Walden Woods, the forest around Walden Pond...
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    express their nature in the variety of creative work that they do. Henry David Thoreau criticised the division of labour in Walden (1854), on the basis...
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    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (category Books by Henry David Thoreau)
    Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) is a book by American writer Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). It recounts his experience on a boat trip with his brother...
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    Emerson's circle included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau. Major works written in Concord during this period include Alcott's...
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    who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism. Salt is considered...
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  • The memoir tracks the author's retracing of six walks taken by Henry David Thoreau, which brings about personal memories and emotional insights. It...
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  • recorded use of the term traces back to the 1854 book Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was criticizing what he saw as a decline in intellectual standards...
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    Spooner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Max Stirner, Herbert Spencer and Henry David Thoreau. Other important individualist anarchists in the United States were...
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  • sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau's essay Resistance to Civil Government, published posthumously as...
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    range of backgrounds with diverse ideologies and aims. For example, Henry David Thoreau and William Lloyd Garrison drew inspiration from the American Revolution...
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    private man." Emerson is also well-known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow Transcendentalist. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts...
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau, William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch...
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    American amateur geologist best known for being a love interest of Henry David Thoreau. Ellen Devereux Sewall was born on March 10, 1822 in Barnstable,...
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  • would instead prefer a "simple life" inspired by the writings of Henry David Thoreau. In a dream-like pre-credit sequence, Louisa, a black-clad widow...
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    appreciation of nature, Wyeth took walks that fired his imagination. Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, and King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925) inspired him...
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    mentioned in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry David Thoreau. Mount Greylock is part of an 11-mile-long (18 km) massif called...
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  • Women. Anna wore a grey silk dress to the wedding. Guests included Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lidian Jackson Emerson and Franklin Benjamin...
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    A Plea for Captain John Brown (category Essays by Henry David Thoreau)
    "A Plea for Captain John Brown" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau, based on a speech he first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts, on...
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    "Remembering Henry David Thoreau". Thoreau Farm Trust. Retrieved June 10, 2012. Schreiner 2006, pp. 91–92 Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1862). "Thoreau". The Atlantic...
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    including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Encouraged by her family, Louisa began writing from an early age...
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  • book Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Shay encourages Tally to come with her, reject the surgery, and seek out The Smoke and its leader, David. Tally refuses...
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