Monday, January 3, 2011
Henry David Thoreau
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"American philosopher, poet, and environmental scientist"
ReplyDelete"...whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these identities in meditating on the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being"
"Although his political essays have become justly famous, his works on natural science were not even published until the late twentieth century, and they help to give us a more complete picture of him as a thinker."
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/
rubyroberts.
"Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist."
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He worked at Concord public school and quit when he was asked to give corpral punishment.
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From 1841 to 1844 he lived in the Emerson House.
-Wikipedia.org
Patrick O'Keefe
ReplyDelete"[Henry David Thoreau]is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings." (Wikipedia)
"Thoreau embarked on a two-year experiment in simple living on July 4, 1845, when he moved to a small, self-built house on land owned by Emerson in a second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond." (Wikipedia)
"Thoreau spent two days and a night in jail -- July 23 and 24, 1846 -- after he refused to pay his poll tax as an act of civil disobedience..." (Answers.com)
-He was a known abolitionist, who openly defended John Brown, and praised Wendell Philips for his writings.
ReplyDelete-His ideas about Civil Disobedience inspired Martin Luither King Junior and Mathama Gandhi.
-His writings have had a heavy influence on every who read them, including JFK, Upton Sinclair, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Ernest Hemingway.
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1. "Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
ReplyDelete2. His birth name was David Thoreau. He changed to Henry David after he finished college, but he never had it legally changed.
3. "Thoreau refused to pay the five-dollar fee for a Harvard diploma" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an american poet. His main interest was natural history. Henry died of bronchitis at the age of 44. He attended Harvard university.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Thoreau influenced Martin Luther King jr. and Matma Gahndi.-wikipedia
ReplyDeleteHe was born July 12 1817 in Concord,Massachusetts.-answers.com
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." Henry David Thoreau-Brainy Quotes
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
----Brainyquotes
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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Juan (Johnny) Castillo
ReplyDelete1) "All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man." @ http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau.html
2)"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." @ http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau.html
3) "Be not simply good - be good for something. " @ http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau_4.html
-henry david thoreau's father was a pencil maker. wikipedia.com.
ReplyDelete-For most of his adult life he worked in a pencil factory with his family.Wikipedia.com
-Thoreau didn't embrace civilization and yet he didnt welcome nature. Instead he used the pastoralc realm which combined the two or was like the middle group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Beliefs
Christopher Skordas-
ReplyDelete3 facts on Henry David Thoreau.
1.Although writing in the 1800's, Thoreau influenced others who are still living today, and was ahead of his time.
"Thoreau's careful observations and devastating conclusions have rippled into time, becoming stronger as the weaknesses Thoreau noted have become more pronounced ... Events that seem to be completely unrelated to his stay at Walden Pond have been influenced by it, including the national park system, the British labor movement, the creation of India, the civil rights movement, the hippie revolution, the environmental movement, and the wilderness movement. Today, Thoreau's words are quoted with feeling by liberals, socialists, anarchists, libertarians, and conservatives alike."
— Ken Kifer (wikipedia)
2.Thoreau was incredably unconventional for his time period, and has many ideals that people in the world share today.
"Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist".(wikipedia)
3.Thoreau thought of technology differently for his time, most were amazed by it, while he felt these comforts were hindrances to mankind.
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."
— Thoreau
(wikipedia)
amandashiu-
ReplyDelete"Thoreau's writings influenced many public figures. Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Influence
"In 1851, Thoreau became increasingly fascinated with natural history and travel/expedition narratives. He read avidly on botany and often wrote observations on this topic into his journal." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Influence
"1859, following a late night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he became ill with bronchitis." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau#Influence
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." Henry David Thoreau, briany quote.com
ReplyDelete"There is no just and serene criticism as yet." Henry David Thoreau, brainy quote.com
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." Henry David Thoreau, thoreau-online.org
One interesting this i found was that he was a abolitionis (wikipediaa). Another thing that was interesting to me is that he went to Harvard Universty.(answers.com) He also spent some jail time for protesting the Mexican-American war(annswers.com)
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"Thoreau spent his last years revising and editing his unpublished works..." www.wikipedia.com
ReplyDelete"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." -Henry David Thoreau
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27110.html
"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark." -Henry David Thoreau
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau_7.html
Henry David Thoreau was thought of from other people as an anarchist.
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He advocated civil disobedience.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-david-thoreau
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
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http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_David_Thoreau/
Steven Cao
Something that I find interesting about Henry David Thoreau is that he supported abolitionism. (wikipedia.org) I find his quote interesting when he said, "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." (brainyquote.com) I mostly admire his quote in which he said, "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." (brainyquote.com)
ReplyDelete"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."-Henry David Thoreau (brainyquotes)
ReplyDelete"When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis."-thoreau (2think.org)
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion”
Henry David Thoreau (thinkexist.com
-appel, sean
Thoreau influenced many public figures and thought them of non-violent resistance.
ReplyDeleteFound at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
"He wrote in Walden: "The practical objection to animal food in my case was its uncleanness; and besides, when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially. It was insignificant and unnecessary, and cost more than it came to. A little bread or a few potatoes would have done as well, with less trouble and filth."[52]"
found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was ignored in his own day but is now a world influence.
Found at http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-david-thoreau
-Nia Butler
ReplyDelete1.Mr.Thoreau was born as David Henry Thoreau in Concord Massachussett. His fathers name was John Thoreau and his mothers name was Cythia Dunbar.
(Wikipedia)
2.In 1835 Mr. thoreau contracted tuberculosis and he sufffered from it sporadically afterwards. In 1859 thoreau became ill with bronchitis and later in 1862 on May 6 he died.
(Wikipedia)
3.Mr.Thoreau studied at Harvard University between the years of 1833 and 1837.
(Wikipedia)
"He scrubbed the floor in his cabin at Walden Pond with sand" (yahoo.answers.com)
ReplyDeleteIn 1842, his brother cut himself while shaving and dies of lockjaw in his arms, Henry was traumatized at age 25. (vcu.edu)
"Thoreau was christened David Henry Thoreau, but switched to calling himself Henry David after graduating from Harvard." (answers.com)
Source of Answers
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Henry and his brother John opened a school in Concord but then it ended when John became fatally ill then he died in Henry's arms.
ReplyDelete"A legend proposes that Thoreau refused to pay the five-dollar fee for a Harvard diploma. In fact, the master's degree he declined to purchase had no academic merit"
"In 1859, following a late night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he became ill with bronchitis"
Wikipedia
"He was a superb literary craftsman and the most notable American nature writer." -www.answers.com
ReplyDelete"His parents were permanently poor." -www.answers.com
He created this quote "“What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”" -www.thinkexist.com