Thoreau

[ thuh-roh, thawr-oh, thohr-oh ]

noun

1. Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.

Thoreau

/ ˈθɔːrəʊ; θɔːˈrəʊ /

noun

1. ThoreauHenry David18171862MUSWRITING: writerSOCIAL SCIENCE: social critic Henry David. 1817–62, US writer, noted esp for Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of his experiment in living in solitude. A powerful social critic, his essay Civil Disobedience (1849) influenced such dissenters as Gandhi

Other Words From

• Tho·reau·vi·an [th, uh, -, roh, -vee-, uh, n], adjective

Example Sentences

As Thoreau wrote, “It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”

From Outside Online

I usually take this route, skirting the shores where Thoreau sauntered beginning in March 1845.

From Outside Online

Thoreau went to this pond to “live deliberately,” to live deeply so as to avoid the danger that we all face—discovering at the end that we haven’t lived.

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In his essay “Walking,” Thoreau wrote that “two or three hours’ walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see.”

From Outside Online

She wrote about architecture as prolifically and proficiently as Thoreau wrote about nature.

From Washington Post

It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.

From The Daily Beast

I still am in the stream of thought that started in this country with Emerson and Thoreau and Whitman.

From The Daily Beast

Your book incorporates a number of literary quotes, as well as references to artists and thinkers like Van Gogh and Thoreau.

From The Daily Beast

And of course, Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience” because of his disgust with the scourge of slavery in the United States.

From The Daily Beast

At one point he quoted Thoreau: "It doesn't matter what you look at, it is what you see."

From The Daily Beast

Such can live many lives; while a Thoreau can live but one, and that only with perpetual foresight.

From Project Gutenberg

Give old Mr. Thoreau any seat he wants,” said I, “only Mr. Emerson must sit beside him.

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I drifted inland to Concord, a-foot, as a pilgrim to the town where Emerson and Thoreau had lived.

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He had been the milkman to the Emerson and Thoreau families, and, in that capacity, had known both the great men.

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Thoreau coveted its strong purple stalk for a cane, and the robins eat its dark crimson-juiced berries.

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