Thoreau
Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
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- Tho·reau·vi·an [thuh-roh-vee-uhn], /θəˈroʊ vi ən/, adjective
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As Thoreau wrote, “It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
I usually take this route, skirting the shores where Thoreau sauntered beginning in March 1845.
Open-Water Swimming and Other Acts of Civil Disobedience | jversteegh | August 25, 2021 | Outside OnlineThoreau 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.
Open-Water Swimming and Other Acts of Civil Disobedience | jversteegh | August 25, 2021 | Outside OnlineIn 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.”
She wrote about architecture as prolifically and proficiently as Thoreau wrote about nature.
World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris | Liza Weisstuch | December 10, 2020 | Washington Post
It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.
The Incredibly Stupid War on the Common Core | Charles Upton Sahm | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI still am in the stream of thought that started in this country with Emerson and Thoreau and Whitman.
Interview: T Bone Burnett, the Coen Brothers’ Music Guru | Andrew Romano | December 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYour book incorporates a number of literary quotes, as well as references to artists and thinkers like Van Gogh and Thoreau.
Is Light Pollution the Easiest Environmental Problem to Fix? | Mindy Farabee | July 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd of course, Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience” because of his disgust with the scourge of slavery in the United States.
At one point he quoted Thoreau: "It doesn't matter what you look at, it is what you see."
Sandusky Sentenced to 30 to 60 Years: Inside the Courtroom | Diane Dimond | October 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSuch can live many lives; while a Thoreau can live but one, and that only with perpetual foresight.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonGive old Mr. Thoreau any seat he wants,” said I, “only Mr. Emerson must sit beside him.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonI drifted inland to Concord, a-foot, as a pilgrim to the town where Emerson and Thoreau had lived.
Tramping on Life | Harry KempHe had been the milkman to the Emerson and Thoreau families, and, in that capacity, had known both the great men.
Tramping on Life | Harry KempThoreau coveted its strong purple stalk for a cane, and the robins eat its dark crimson-juiced berries.
A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs
British Dictionary definitions for Thoreau
/ (ˈθɔːrəʊ, θɔːˈrəʊ) /
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
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