1. A Look at the Life & Philosophy of Henry David Thoreau Presented by Mr. Puzio

2. Agenda Overview of Thoreau’s Life Review of Thoreau’s Philosophy Books by Thoreau –Lifetime Publications –Posthumous Publications Famous Quotes of Thoreau

3. Overview of Thoreau’s Life Born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts Attended Harvard University Worked as a Teacher, a Surveyor, and a Writer Spent 2 Years at Walden Pond Died in 1862 of Tuberculosis

4. Review of Thoreau’s Philosophy Determine What is Basic Human Survival Live as Simply as Possible Believe in the Individual, Self Reliance, and Independence Major Supporter of the Transcendentalist Movement with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller

5. Books by Thoreau Lifetime Publications –“A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers” –“Walden, or Life in the Woods” Posthumous Publications –“Excursions” –“The Maine Woods” –“Cape Cod” –“A Yankee in Canada”

6. Famous Quotes by Thoreau “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music, which he hears, however measured or far away.” “My greatest skill has been to want but little.” “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”