He has been called the patron saint of the environmental movement and the father of nonviolent resistance. His best-known work, Walden, is considered a masterpiece and figures on every list of ...

Henry David Thoreau’s timing was one of his gifts: Living and writing during his nation’s adolescence, he was something of an adolescent himself. In “Walden,” he found constant wonder in the obvious; ...

LUNENBURG — After he spent the night in jail one July night in 1846 for refusing to pay his poll tax as an act of protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau gave a lecture which ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Henry David Thoreau is one of those figures whose name one may know but whose writing often boils down in the mind ...