Henry David Thoreau died on May 6th, 1862 at the tragically early age of just 44. In the decades that followed he would be regarded as one of America’s greatest writers. Thoreau spent his last years revising and editing his unpublished works. His health now fell into an irreversible decline with only short periods of remission. In 1859, following a late-night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he fell ill with bronchitis. The Concord, Massachusetts, native spent most of his life observing the natural world of New England. Tragically his life and career were short. Essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (181762) ranks among Americas foremost nature writers.
A noted Abolitionist Thoreau was a man to stand by his principles regardless of the minority view he might be holding.
Eventually his published writings were to celebrate this area and his own philosophies. H ow vexing to the masters of America’s Northeast megalopolis that the transit system has failed to compress the tedious 225-mile interval between Washington and New York. He was deeply influenced by Nature and especially the Walden woods. Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and how it affected the human condition. On graduating the normal professions left him unmoved and, after a period teaching at his own school, a growing friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson moved his career onto that of writer and observer of nature. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 18 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science. From camping by the waterside and waking to birdsong to enduring mosquitoes and cloudbursts, he writes with grace and clarity that bring the American wilderness to vivid life.Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's poetic yet realistic observations of the landscape are accompanied by his accounts of day-to-day events. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Maine woodlands were still in pristine condition, inhabited by a handful of Native Americans, pioneer farmers, the occasional lumberjack, and a rich and diverse wildlife population. Canoeing in the Wilderness, the 1857 diary of a two-week sojourn in Maine, chronicles the author's travels with a friend and a Native American guide. His thoughts on leading a simple, independent life remain a foundation of modern environmentalism, as captured in Walden, his best-known work. Essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) ranks among America's foremost nature writers.
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