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Henry David Thoreau

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 to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of notable figures such as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Thoreau is sometimes referred to retrospectively as an anarchist, but may perhaps be more properly regarded as a ''proto-anarchist''. Provided by Wikipedia
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Walking by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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A Plea for Captain John Brown Read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Wild Apples by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Excursions, and Poems The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 05 (of 20) by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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The Service by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Paradise (to be) Regained by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
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Cape Cod by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 [Illustrator]
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Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Torrey, Bradford, 1843-1912 [Editor]
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Henry David Thoreau by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Widger, David, 1932-2021? [Editor]
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Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 08 (of 20) by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Torrey, Bradford, 1843-1912 [Editor]
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Excursions by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 [Contributor]
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Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917 [Editor]
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Canoeing in the wilderness by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 [Editor]; Hammell, Will, 1888-1963 [Illustrator]
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Poems of Nature by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Salt, Henry S., 1851-1939 [Editor]; Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917 [Editor]
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The gift of friendship by Hyatt, Alfred H. [Compiler]; Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719 [Contributor]; Anthusa [Contributor]; Aristotle, 385 BCE-323 BCE [Contributor]; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 [Contributor]; Berkeley, George, 1685-1753 [Contributor]; Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 [Contributor]; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 [Contributor]; Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 [Contributor]; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 [Contributor]; Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831 [Contributor]; Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 [Contributor]; Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729 [Contributor]; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 [Contributor]; MacGoun, H. C. Preston (Hannah C. Preston), 1864-1913 [Illustrator]
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