Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden (available at ) on simple living amongst nature and Civil Disobedience (available at ) on resistance to civil government. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the radical John Brown. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

External links

• Thoreau David Thoreau ("The Transcendentalists")
• The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
• The American Transcendentalist Web
• Thoreau Project at Calliope
• The Thoreau Society
• Thoreau WebDVD Project 'Life With Principle'
• The Thoreau Reader
• John Updike, "A Sage for All Seasons" - courtesy of the UK Guardian, an edited extract from the introduction to Updike's new edition of Walden
• A Biography of Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Thoreau's republished work, 'Excursions'.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry