Thoreau

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

noun

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

Thoreau

/ ˈθɔːrəʊ, θɔːˈrəʊ /

noun

1. 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 Word Forms

• Thoreauvian adjective

Example Sentences

He finds New England “richer in wildlife than when Henry Thoreau was writing Walden one hundred fifty years ago.”

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Second, at their best — in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau’s objection to slavery and the Mexican-American War in his essay “Civil Disobedience” — a protest can provide a shining moral clarity.

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For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

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Just ask Henry David Thoreau, who was lamenting in 1854 that our lives are being “frittered away by detail.”

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At Los Rios, the students hike on a nature trail designed by Myers with boulders etched with quotes from Emerson, Thoreau and Muir.

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