Author of Walden (1854) and of the 1849 essay known since his death as Civil Disobedience. A member of Emerson's Concord circle from the early 1840s, he lived for two years on land Emerson owned at Walden Pond and took Transcendentalist principle as a discipline of daily practice rather than a subject for lecture.
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Emerson owned the Walden Pond land Thoreau built his cabin on and urged him to keep a journal.
Source Robert D. Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995)
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Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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1. Wikipedia: Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817, May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.
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