Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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David Henry Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Henry D. Thoreau
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Henry Thoreau
I make it my business to extract from Nature whatever nutriment she can furnish me, though at the risk of endless iteration. I milk the sky and the earth.
There are two seasons when the leaves are in their glory, their green and perfect youth in June and this their ripe old age.
There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest.
