Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher—a disciple of American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson—and a writer, best known as the author of Walden, which proposed a program of ...
A vision emerges unbidden, seemingly delivered not from inside the mind, but from outside, as though from the gods, or the God, arriving through some superhuman or supernatural force, an offering to ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Henry David Thoreau’s classic book Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) helped establish the nature writing tradition ...