WORDS FROM A GREAT MIND

Henry David Thoreau

Writer, naturalist & thinker

Born: 12 July 1817
Died: 6 May 1862
Lived in: Concord, Walden Pond & Staten Island, USA

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and worked as a teacher, surveyor, pencil maker, naturalist, and writer. He is best known for Walden and Civil Disobedience, works that grew from close observation, independent thought, and experiments in simpler living.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

In 1844, while cooking fish chowder with a friend, he accidentally started a forest fire that burned more than 300 acres around Concord.

Words by Henry David Thoreau

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.”

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