1. Henry David Thoreau

2. Henry David Thoreau was born July 12, 1817 Wrote the book Walden and an essay titled civil Disobedience He was a transcendentalist He died in 1862, 44 years old to tuberculosis

3. Henry David Thoreau Thoreau studied at Harvard for 4 years He went on to teach with his brother john until john became ill He met Ralph Waldo Emerson who helped make him into a Transcendentalist He started to write essays poems and books in 1845 In his life he traveled few times, but he came back and wrote books about what he had seen

4. Walden One of the more well know works he made Walden is generally liked to his transcendentalism Walden is a declaration of self discovery and personal growth “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” a quote from Walden

5. Walden Thoreau wrote this while living in his hut on the edge of the woods on Walden pond Part of his movement to live more simple then normal

6. Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is hard to define The context of a transcendentalist is based off of context It can be however summed up to someone who seeks there own relationship to the universe

7. http://www.thoreau-online.org/henry-david-thoreau-biography.htm http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/walden/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/ http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/amtrans.htm