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Henry David Thoreau


 * Was a well-known transcendentalist that lived in Massachusetts during the mid-1800's
 * He is most famous for writing the book //Walden//
 * //D//escribes a simple way of living in natural surroundings
 * Took place on the outskirts of Mass. in Walden Pond
 * Also wrote several essays on his outlook about the government, taxes, and society in general
 * The most famous essay was //Civil Disobedience//
 * For these essays, he was criticized for being an Anarchist and spent a night in jail

//Walden// by Henry David Thoerau
 * Thoreau believed that people should simplify their lives because life is too fast and superficial. He doesn't understand the idea of people living in such a hurry. He believes that everyone should appreciate life rather then living busy.
 * He believed that it is better to live poor than wealthy because wealthy isn't natural. Living poor gives people the chance to appreciate life without inventions and luxuries.
 * Thoreau believed that living in the wood will enable him to "live deep and suck all the marrow out of life" because he feels the outer world only brings him negative things and if he lives alone in the woods, he will be able to get away from all those bad things and "reawaken".
 * He lives the woods because he lives that there are many other experiences that is waiting for him.