Thoreau


noun
1.
Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
noun
1.
Henry David. 1817–62, US writer, noted esp for Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of his experiment in living in solitude. A powerful social critic, his essay Civil Disobedience (1849) influenced such dissenters as Gandhi

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