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Henry Davi Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; (ˈθʌroʊ) (help·info), rhyming with "furrow";July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, sage writer and philosopher. 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.

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  • He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..."
  • In "Civil Disobedience", he called his night in Concord Jail "novel and interesting enough"
  • From July 1845 to September 1847, he communed with nature at Walden Pond
  • Born in 1817, solo nature boy 1845-1847, became one with the earth in 1862
  • In "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist said, "That government is best which governs least"
  • Writers resting at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Mass. include Emerson & this Walden Pond ponderer
  • This poet & essayist spent 2 years, 2 months & 2 days living in a cabin at Walden Pond
  • "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes," he wrote from the pond
  • Transcendentalist pond-erer(7)
  • "Pond"er this: Yale is the proud owner of 2 pieces of wood from his cabin at Walden
  • ...wrote the line "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"
  • This writer was known affectionately as "The Concord Rebel" & "The Poet Naturalist"
  • He wrote "Civil Disobedience" as a result of being jailed for not paying his taxes as a protest against the Mexican War
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson once employed this thinker as a gardener & handyman

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