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henry david thoreau
This New Englander began building his house in March 1845 & later wrote that it cost exactly $28.12 1/2
Trivia about henry david thoreau
At Harvard, this writer proposed that we work 1 day & leave 6 free for the "sublime revelations of nature"
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude", he wrote in a chapter on solitude in an 1854 work
In the 1840s he wrote, "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"
Urged to make his peace with God, this "Walden" author replied, "I did not know we had ever quarreled"
In "Walden", he wrote, "We need the tonic of wildness"
While living by Walden Pond in 1846, he was arrested for refusing to pay his poll tax
From 1845 to 1847 he lived in a cabin he built on the shore of Walden Pond
n his 1849 essay on civil disobedience, he said citizens should protest unjust government needs
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Charles Ives named the fourth movement of his "Concord Sonata" for this man who pondered a pond
At Walden Pond, he "never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude"
In July 1846 he spent a night in jail rather than pay a tax; that led to his essay "Civil Disobedience"
The land on which he built a small cabin in 1845 was owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Hi, I'm Christine King Farris) As a student at Morehouse College, my brother was inspired by this writer's essay on "Civil Disobedience"
This writer began communing with nature on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts
He wrote, "I went to the woods....to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life"
He wrote his essay "Life Without Principle" after he returned from Walden Pond
He wrote, "I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home":
Residents of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. include Emerson & this Walden Pond resident
This pal of Emerson was known for a little "Civil Disobedience"
In 1854 this naturalist observed that much of winter is "suggestive of an inexpressable tenderness"
He wrote that "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desparation"
He hated "busyness" & built the cabin he lived in:A very hidden author
Emerson encouraged me to start keeping a journal, which I did until a few months before my death in 1862