Henry David Thoreau (/θəˈroʊ ˈθɔroʊ ˈθoʊroʊ/; July 12 1817 – May 6 1862) was an American author poet philosopher abolitionist naturalist tax resister development critic surveyor historian and leading transcendentalist.
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birth date
1817-07-12
birth place
Concord Massachusetts
death date
1862-05-06
death place
Concord Massachusetts
era
19th-century philosophy
influenced
B. F. Skinner, E. B. White, E. O. Wilson, Emma Goldman, Ernest Hemingway, George Bernard Shaw, Mahatma Gandhi, Marcel Proust, Martin Luther King Jr., Sinclair Lewis, W. B. Yeats, John Zerzan, Upton Sinclair, John F. Kennedy, Leo Tolstoy
Ethics, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Philosophy, Biology, History
notableIdea
Anarchism, Direct action, Civil disobedience, Abolitionism in the United States, Conscientious objector, Development criticism, Simple living, Tax resistance, Environmentalism
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