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Thinker · 1817–1862

Henry David Thoreau

Built a cabin at Walden Pond and lived simply for two years to see what he could learn. Refused to pay tax to a slaveholding government and went to jail for it.

Contributions
  • Walden — experiment in simple living
  • Civil Disobedience
Words that traveled
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau