Henry David Thoreau
A Life
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Paul Boehmer
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"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854.
But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member of the vibrant intellectual circle centered on his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson, he was also an ardent naturalist, a manual laborer and inventor, a radical political activist, and more. Many books have taken up various aspects of Thoreau's character and achievements, but, as Laura Dassow Walls writes, "Thoreau has never been captured between covers; he was too quixotic, mischievous, many-sided."
Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-04-2024
What signifies the beauty of nature when men are base?
I loved the quotes and the small details, I also loved the information on the history of the time. it's really shown me and helped me understand how the world has come to be and forced me to rethink how iv lived and am going to love my life.
I found myself not being able to stop listening once I started and trying to find any excuse to start it up again.. if you want to learn more about this man I highly recommend this book
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