Henry David Thoreau

Biography information

• Writer, philosopher, and naturalist• He believed in the importance of individualism • He encouraged a free attitude toward authority

and tradition. • Most of his life was spent devoted to studying

nature and meditating philosophical problems • Henry David Thoreau was not a fan of authority

figures he even got arrested for not paying his poll tax.

• (www.depauw.edu)

His writingsand poetry

• Hawthorne found most of Thoreau works “to have a deep taste for poetry and especially for elder poets”.

• His best known works were “Walden” and “life in the woods”.

• “Succession of Forest Trees” • “Cape cod”• “Life without Principle”• (http://www.masis.am/wfp/flower11.jpg)

Quotes

• "To live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach.“

• If a man does not keep pace with his companions," Thoreau reminds us, "perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

• (http://www.masis.am/wfp/10.jpg)• http://www.transcendentalists.com/

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Films he would like

Never cry wolf Old yeller The eye of the leopardThe snow walker The endurance White fang

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Films he would dislike

• Eve of destructions

• Tsunami Wave of destruction

• Sky blue

• Departed

Pictures of Thoreau

Works cited • The us library of congress

http://www.transcendentalists.com/thoreau_biography.htm• Encarta encyclopedia • Encarta.msn.com/encylopedia_761553346/throueau_henry_david.html• hawthorn's journal • www.eldritehpress.org/ah/ahhdt1.html • www.amazon.com/Animal-and-Nature-Movies/lm/3M7O58UJMYMSG -

145k - • http://www.covebear.com/movies.htm

• http://www.edenpics.com/index.phtml?l=en&m=g&t=d&pic=005-094• (http://imdb.com/title/tt0101831/)• http://www.smarter.com/tsunami_wave_of_destruction---pd--ch-4--pi-

222708.html• http://countingdown.com/movies/3619573