Henry David Thoreau was a significant contributor to American literature and political thought. His works include Walden and “Civil Disobedience.” Thoreau lived a subsistence life at Walden Pond, where he protested the Mexican-American War and slavery. He later became interested in natural history and environmental protectionism. Thoreau died at 44, leaving unpublished works that were […]
Thoreau’s iconic memoir about life in the outdoors, Walden, exaggerates his solitude. His mother visited him regularly at his cabin, which was only a 20-minute walk from his family home in Concord. Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” inspired Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Henry David Thoreau has iconic status among introverts, conservationists, and transcendentalists, […]
