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01Henry Thoreau's "Walden" is a book about escaping from civilization in order to embrace your spiritual life
Henry Thoreau's "Walden" is a book about escaping from civilization in order to embrace your spiritual life
Henry Thoreau's "Walden" is a book about escaping from civilization in order to embrace your spiritual life
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Philosophical reflections on simple living and natural observation found one of their most influential expressions in Walden, a classic account of deliberate living in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts. Written by Henry David Thoreau, who was born David Henry Thoreau on July 12, 1817, this body of work combines natural history, practical self-reliance, and transcendentalist philosophy to examine humanity's place in the natural world.
In addition to his observations on nature, Thoreau authored the landmark 1849 essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), which articulates a moral defense of individual resistance against unjust government actions.
Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau attended local public schools and the Concord Academy before entering Harvard College, where he graduated in 1837. Shortly after graduation, he reversed his given names to Henry David and began maintaining a detailed personal journal that ultimately spanned twenty-four years across forty-seven manuscript volumes. Over the course of his life, Thoreau worked as a schoolteacher, land surveyor, lecturer, and craftsman in his family's pencil-making and ground lead business.
Thoreau lived nearly all of his life in Concord, traveling rarely beyond New England, though he frequently recorded detailed accounts whenever he did journey. As a central figure among the New England transcendentalists, he sought to put philosophical theories into daily practice. He spent over two years living in a self-built cabin near Walden Pond, an experience that supplied the primary material for his best-known book. Thoreau died of tuberculosis on May 6, 1862, at forty-four years of age, leaving behind a written legacy of over twenty volumes of books, essays, articles, and poetry.
Thoreau's literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore. His prose displays a distinct poetic sensibility alongside a philosophical austerity and a practical love of Yankee detail. Deeply invested in themes of survival against hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay, his writings urged individuals to abandon waste, social illusion, and trivial pursuits in order to discover life's true essential needs.
Anticipating core methods and findings of modern ecology and environmental history, Thoreau approached nature through both meticulous empirical recording and spiritual reflection. His writings on natural history mapped ecological relationships, while his political essays championed individual conscience, tax resistance, and civil liberties in moral opposition to an unjust state.
1 books in catalog
Philosophical reflections on simple living and natural observation found one of their most influential expressions in Walden, a classic account of deliberate living in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts. Written by Henry David Thoreau, who was born David Henry Thoreau on July 12, 1817, this body of work combines natural history, practical self-reliance, and transcendentalist philosophy to examine humanity's place in the natural world.
In addition to his observations on nature, Thoreau authored the landmark 1849 essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), which articulates a moral defense of individual resistance against unjust government actions.
Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau attended local public schools and the Concord Academy before entering Harvard College, where he graduated in 1837. Shortly after graduation, he reversed his given names to Henry David and began maintaining a detailed personal journal that ultimately spanned twenty-four years across forty-seven manuscript volumes. Over the course of his life, Thoreau worked as a schoolteacher, land surveyor, lecturer, and craftsman in his family's pencil-making and ground lead business.
Thoreau lived nearly all of his life in Concord, traveling rarely beyond New England, though he frequently recorded detailed accounts whenever he did journey. As a central figure among the New England transcendentalists, he sought to put philosophical theories into daily practice. He spent over two years living in a self-built cabin near Walden Pond, an experience that supplied the primary material for his best-known book. Thoreau died of tuberculosis on May 6, 1862, at forty-four years of age, leaving behind a written legacy of over twenty volumes of books, essays, articles, and poetry.
Thoreau's literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore. His prose displays a distinct poetic sensibility alongside a philosophical austerity and a practical love of Yankee detail. Deeply invested in themes of survival against hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay, his writings urged individuals to abandon waste, social illusion, and trivial pursuits in order to discover life's true essential needs.
Anticipating core methods and findings of modern ecology and environmental history, Thoreau approached nature through both meticulous empirical recording and spiritual reflection. His writings on natural history mapped ecological relationships, while his political essays championed individual conscience, tax resistance, and civil liberties in moral opposition to an unjust state.
