Thoreau
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- proper noun
- /θɔˈroʊ/
- I started to read authors like Thoreau and Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey, and I really began to develop a deeper appreciation of the natural world.
- Thoreau Centenary
- Henry Thoreau
- Thoreau's Walden
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Watch on YouTubeThat's the highest of arts, Thoreau wrote in Walden, speaking about neighbors.
- That's the highest of arts, Thoreau wrote in Walden, speaking about neighbors.
- And now let me leave you with some words from Henry David Thoreau.
- Yeah, Let me start out by by saying that when I was in high school, I discovered Henry David Thoreau and Red Walden.
- And the transcendentalists, Thoreau and Emerson, they believed that nature was our source and that we were all products of nature.
- And who better to quote than Thoreau right here in Concord when he talked about some of us hear a different drummer and we must March to the music that we hear.
- I'm being wilful in wanting to talk about Thoreau.
- That is part de Tocqueville, part Henry David Thoreau.
- So there were all the Thoreau books and Stevenson books on my kitchen table, and I read this in Stevenson.
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And the transcendentalists, Thoreau and Emerson, they believed that nature was our source and that we were all products of nature.
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No one who writes as relentlessly as Thoreau did about solitude believes in it in any simple way.
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I mean, if we think of someone like Thoreau, Thoreau sounds like a really great guy.
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We read Thoreau last year in English, and it got me inspired.
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Poet Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better."
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As Henry David Thoreau said, never look back unless you're planning to go that way.
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So I'm doing some class videos about Thoreau's civil disobedience.
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Thoreau was a Harvard grad, and, like many of us, a bit self-righteous.
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The first part, "The Thinker," considers Thoreau's genius and defines the inevitable misunderstanding by his contemporaries.
Academic text (1999) -
Henry David Thoreau was an influential writer known for his thoughts on nature and civil disobedience.
Synonyms
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An American writer and thinker known for Walden and for civil disobedience
Surface Forms
Etymology
Thoreau is a French family name and is best known as Henry David Thoreau, the American writer who lived simply at Walden Pond. A helpful way to remember Thoreau is to think of him as the quiet, thoughtful man who might 'row' on a pond, so the name now makes us think of nature, simple living, and peaceful protest.