• Thumbnail for Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best...
    119 KB (12,699 words) - 11:51, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)
    is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit...
    24 KB (3,125 words) - 23:31, 24 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Walden
    Walden (redirect from Economy (Thoreau))
    Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural...
    41 KB (5,617 words) - 16:42, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Walking (Thoreau)
    Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written...
    4 KB (458 words) - 22:38, 6 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Walden Pond
    Walden Pond (category Henry David Thoreau)
    National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its association with the writer Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), whose two years living in a cabin on its shore provided...
    22 KB (2,501 words) - 18:48, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Division of labour
    express their nature in the variety of creative work that they do. Henry David Thoreau criticised the division of labour in Walden (1854), on the basis...
    56 KB (7,067 words) - 19:50, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sophia Thoreau
    Sophia Elizabeth Thoreau (1819–1876) was an American editor. As the sister of Henry David Thoreau and his close collaborator, she was responsible for the...
    4 KB (346 words) - 16:46, 28 March 2024
  • Walden Woods Project (category Henry David Thoreau)
    organization located in Lincoln, Massachusetts, devoted to the legacy of Henry David Thoreau and the preservation of Walden Woods, the forest around Walden Pond...
    8 KB (849 words) - 14:05, 25 November 2023
  • Lysander Spooner (natural law), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (mutualism), Henry David Thoreau (transcendentalism), Herbert Spencer (law of equal liberty) and Anselme...
    204 KB (24,354 words) - 00:21, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
    life of the title character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to his night spent in a jail in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau was jailed for refusing to...
    8 KB (1,107 words) - 00:56, 26 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (category Books by Henry David Thoreau)
    Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) is a book by American writer Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). It recounts his experience on a boat trip with his brother...
    6 KB (798 words) - 23:13, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thoreau Society
    based in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, at the house where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. With members from all 50 states and countries around...
    5 KB (541 words) - 13:16, 27 September 2023
  • The memoir tracks the author's retracing of six walks taken by Henry David Thoreau, which brings about personal memories and emotional insights. It...
    12 KB (1,038 words) - 19:46, 16 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Concord, Massachusetts
    Emerson's circle included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau. Major works written in Concord during this period include Alcott's...
    46 KB (4,364 words) - 21:33, 13 March 2024
  • sometimes equated with peaceful protests or nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau's essay Resistance to Civil Government, published posthumously as...
    60 KB (7,766 words) - 07:50, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louisa May Alcott
    Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Alcott's family suffered from financial...
    49 KB (5,417 words) - 16:12, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ellen Sewall Osgood
    American amateur geologist best known for being a love interest of Henry David Thoreau. Ellen Devereux Sewall was born on March 10, 1822 in Barnstable,...
    3 KB (296 words) - 15:49, 5 March 2024
  • Amos Bronson Alcott, Orestes Brownson, Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau, William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Christopher Pearse Cranch...
    33 KB (3,526 words) - 04:58, 23 March 2024
  • disease. The phrase "seven-year itch" was used in this sense by Henry David Thoreau in Walden in 1854 and Carl Sandburg in 1936 in The People, Yes. The...
    7 KB (854 words) - 13:45, 5 January 2024
  • Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Aldous Huxley, Henry David Thoreau, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Bulent Ecevit...
    18 KB (2,068 words) - 19:33, 20 August 2023
  • Spooner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Max Stirner, Herbert Spencer and Henry David Thoreau. Other important individualist anarchists in the United States were...
    77 KB (9,380 words) - 01:07, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amos Bronson Alcott
    "Remembering Henry David Thoreau". Thoreau Farm Trust. Retrieved June 10, 2012. Schreiner 2006, pp. 91–92 Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1862). "Thoreau". The Atlantic...
    51 KB (6,760 words) - 15:56, 21 January 2024
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher. Thoreau may...
    613 bytes (101 words) - 17:39, 25 December 2023
  • other publications. The book is analogous in design and genre to Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854), the subject of Dillard's master's thesis at Hollins...
    28 KB (4,119 words) - 11:32, 14 August 2023
  • century American scientific naturalist, transcendalist, and writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Witherell served as President of the Association for...
    12 KB (1,226 words) - 00:52, 14 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Andrew Wyeth
    appreciation of nature, Wyeth took walks that fired his imagination. Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, and King Vidor's The Big Parade (1925) inspired him...
    51 KB (5,738 words) - 20:42, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ralph Waldo Emerson
    private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow Transcendentalist. Emerson was born in Newbury, Massachusetts...
    85 KB (10,740 words) - 21:08, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Smith (public historian)
    Richard Smith (public historian) (category Henry David Thoreau)
    New England history and for his living history interpretations of Henry David Thoreau. Smith was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. According to the LA...
    17 KB (1,641 words) - 06:12, 17 February 2024
  • Chopin – Polish composer, aged 39 (possibly cystic fibrosis). 1862: Henry David Thoreau – American naturalist and author, aged 44. 1866: Bernhard Riemann...
    5 KB (429 words) - 22:42, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Stephens Salt
    who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism. Salt is considered...
    17 KB (1,665 words) - 16:37, 21 January 2024