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Henry David Thoreau

"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in his essay "Walking" (Finch & Elder, p. 192). This saying is often misquoted and the preservation of the world attributed to wilderness. This minor wrinkle in how one of the most contradictory voices for wilderness and wildness is remembered is quite appropriate. Thoreau is not a simple subject.

David Henry Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts to John and Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau. The newest Thoreau joined siblings Helen (born 1812, five months after the parents' marriage) and John, jr. (born 1815). The Thoreaus' last child, Sophia, was born in 1819. David Henry was named for a recently deceased relative, but by all accounts was always called Henry by his family.

Thoreau's father was nearly as much of a wandering soul as his son would become. While the Thoreau household was home to a close-knit family, they struggled financially through most of Thoreau's childhood and well into his adolescence. John Thoreau, sr. worked at various times as a f

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Thoreau's Life

Thoreau’s Life

by Richard J. Schneider

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born and lived nearly all his life in Concord, Massachusetts, a small town about twenty miles west of Boston. He received his education at the public school in Concord and at the private Concord Academy. Proving to be a better scholar than his more fun-loving and popular elder brother John, he was sent to Harvard. He did well there and, despite having to drop out for several months for financial and health reasons, was graduated in the top half of his class in 1837.

Thoreau’s graduation came at an inauspicious time. In 1837, America was experiencing an economic depression and jobs were not plentiful. Furthermore, Thoreau found himself temperamentally unsuited for three of the four usual professions open to Harvard graduates: the ministry, the law, and medicine. The fourth, teaching, was one he felt comfortable with, since both of his elder siblings, Helen and John, were already teachers. He was hired as the teacher of the Concord public school, but resigned after on

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Henry David Thoreau

American philosopher (1817–1862)

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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.^[2] A leading transcendentalist,^[3] he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention