Henry David Thoreau By: mp & Lb

his life in the beginning Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life he seen very little difference between them. One of his memories was staying awake at night ”looking through the stars to see if he could see god behind them”.

exploring Henry was very close to his older brother john who taught school to help pay for Henry's tuition at Harvard. While he was in Harvard he read a small book by his concord neighbor Ralph waldo Emerson. After that he never finished exploring his ideas and exploring everything.

Schooling It remained his world for he never grew ambivalent about its lovely setting of woodlands, streams, and meadows. His parents sent him in 1828 to the concord academy, where he impressed his teachers and so was permitted to prepare for college. He graduated from the academy and he entered Harvard university in 1833.

Family His father was a feckless small businessman and his mother stayed at home and was talkative. His brother helped him get into Harvard by working as teacher. One day tragically cut himself while shaving and died of lockjaw in his brother’s arms and untimely death which traumatized Henry.

Life While at Walden, Thoreau did an incredible amount of reading and writing yet he also spent much time "sauntering” in nature. He mostly wrote a book as a memorial to a river trip he had taken with his brother.

Work he’s done He traveled often to the Maine woods and to cape cod several times and was particularly interested in the frontier and also the Indians. Based on his brief stay in jail he learned about slavery and then after getting out of jail he lectured against slavery in an abolitionist lecture.

About his work His work is so rich, and so full of the complex contradictions that he explored, that his readers keep reshaping his image to fit their own needs. Perhaps he would have appreciated that, for he seems to have wanted most to use words to force his readers to rethink their own lives creatively, different though they may be, even as he spent his life rethinking his, always asking questions, always looking to nature for greater intensity and meaning for his life.

quotes “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone” “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity” “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend” “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” “Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.” “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” “Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.” “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”

Movies he would see and not see Second hand lion Band of brothers Mission impossible See no evil Torque Fast and the furious Tokyo drift Movies he wouldn’t watchMovies he would watch

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