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Essay Archive - Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist
Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, and Humanist
He spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of
nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack
in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David
Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David Thoreau, what did he
do, and what did others think of his work?
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12,
1817 ("Thoreau" 96), on his grandmother's farm. Thoreau, who was of
French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ances....
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