Thoreau (1817-1862) was an author, philosopher, activist, and naturalist. Best known today for his long essays Walden (drawn from his two years living alone on the shores of Massachusetts’ Walden Pond) and Civil Disobedience (advocating nonviolent resistance to unjust governments), he was also a fervent abolitionist and a protégé of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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