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'''Henry David Thoreau''' (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)[1] was an American [[author]], poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, [[philosopher]], and leading [[transcendentalist]]. He is best known for his book [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource '''''Walden'''''], a [[reflection]] upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, ''Civil Disobedience'', an argument for [[individual]] resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

'''Henry David Thoreau''' (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)[1] was an American [[author]], poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, [[philosopher]], and leading [[transcendentalist]]. He is best known for his book [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Walden '''''Walden'''''], a [[reflection]] upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, ''Civil Disobedience'', an argument for [[individual]] resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

Thoreau's [[books]], articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on [[natural history]] and [[philosophy]], where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, [[personal]] [[experience]], pointed [[rhetoric]], [[symbolic]] [[meaning]]s, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[2] He was also deeply interested in the [[idea]] of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and [[illusion]] in order to discover life's true essential needs.[2]

Thoreau's [[books]], articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on [[natural history]] and [[philosophy]], where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, [[personal]] [[experience]], pointed [[rhetoric]], [[symbolic]] [[meaning]]s, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail.[2] He was also deeply interested in the [[idea]] of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and [[illusion]] in order to discover life's true essential needs.[2]