Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau in 1856
Born	(1817-07-12)July 12, 1817 Concord, Massachusetts, US
Died	May 6, 1862(1862-05-06) (aged 44) Concord, Massachusetts, US
Alma mater	Harvard College
Era	19th century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Transcendentalism
Main interests	Ethics Poetry Religion Politics Biology Philosophy History
Notable ideas	Abolitionism in the United States Abolitionism tax resistance development criticism civil disobedience conscientious objection direct action environmentalism anarchism simple living
Influences Indian philosophy Ralph Waldo Emerson Thomas Carlyle Charles Darwin
Influenced Mahatma Gandhi John F. Kennedy Martin Luther King, Jr. Walt Whitman Leo Tolstoy Marcel Proust W. B. Yeats Sinclair Lewis Ernest Hemingway Upton Sinclair Emma Goldman E. B. White E. O. Wilson B. F. Skinner George Bernard Shaw John Zerzan
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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)^[1] was an American author, naturalist and philosopher. His friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson had a great impact on him, and supported him in many ways. Emerson provided a place for Thoreau to live at Walden Pond, which inspired his book, Walden.^[2] 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. 

1. ↑ Biography of Henry David Thoreau, American Poems (2000-2007 Gunnar Bengtsson).
2. ↑ "Henry David Thoreau Biography".