Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state
Thoreau's essay "Walking" grew out of magazine entries advanced in 1851 into lectures, "Walking" and "The Wild," which had been added in 1851 and 1852, and once more in 1856 and 1857. Thoreau mixed the lectures, separated them in 1854, and labo...
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau cleared out Concord Massachusetts and moved to a cabin that he built by himself close Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Walden, is an account of his remain within the woods and his encounter. Shedding the minor ties that he f...