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Thoreau also wrote of civil disobedience accomplishing " peaceable revolution.
There have also been many instances of solitary civil disobedience, such as that committed by Thoreau, but these sometimes go unnoticed.
" Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive.
Thoreau revised the lecture into an essay entitled Resistance to Civil Government ( also known as Civil Disobedience ).
Thoreau was also one of the first American supporters of Darwin's theory of evolution.
" Thoreau also influenced many artists and authors including Edward Abbey, Willa Cather, Marcel Proust, William Butler Yeats, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Upton Sinclair, E. B.
Thoreau was also an important influence on late 19th century anarchist naturism.
" Nathaniel Hawthorne was also critical of Thoreau, writing that he " repudiated all regular modes of getting a living, and seems inclined to lead a sort of Indian life among civilized men.
It also named as notable influences the religious and spiritual teachings of Henry David Thoreau, Hillel the Elder, Jesus, Buddha, St. Francis of Assisi, Gandhi, and J. R. R.
Monson is also referenced in the book The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau wherein a drawing of moose antlers depicting the direction and names of both Blanchard and Monson, and the town is mentioned in other sections of the book.
" The town is also not named for Henry David Thoreau, the transcendentalist author, though this is a common misconception.
In addition to the Navajo traditional beliefs men and Native American Church ( peyote way ), the Saint Bonaventure Catholic mission and several Protestant denominations are also active in Thoreau, including Baptists, Latter Day Saints ( Mormons ), Church of Christ, Church of God, and some independent evangelical congregations.
Students may also attend Flint Hill Elementary School, Luther Jackson Middle School or Henry David Thoreau Middle School in Vienna.
Thoreau also criticizes contemporary Christians, who say their prayers and then go to sleep aware of injustice but doing nothing to change it.
" Thoreau also points out the irony of The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, labeling Brown's actions as misguided.
Mark Twain, E. Lynn Harris, Zane Grey, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Rice Burroughs, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Anaïs Nin also self-published some or all of their works.
Although Thoreau went to Walden to escape what he considered, " over-civilization ", and in search of the " raw " and " savage delight " of the wilderness, he also spent considerable amounts of his time reading and writing.
Thoreau also thought highly of the book, suggesting that its strength came in part from Fuller's conversational ability.
Their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, was produced through the American Playwrights Theatre, and premiered at Lawrence's alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned their play on the life and times of James Thurber, Jabberwock ( 1972 ).
The Democratic Review was also ( perhaps even primarily ) a literary magazine, promoting the development of American literature by publishing works of authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
She drew on the experimentation of Ezra Pound and the style of William Carlos Williams, but was also exposed to the Transcendentalism of Thoreau and Emerson.
Their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, was produced through the American Playwrights Theatre, and premiered at Lawrence's alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned their play on the life and times of James Thurber, Jabberwock ( 1972 ).
He also designed a statue of Henry D. Thoreau, the author of the book Walden.

Thoreau and influenced
* Henry David Thoreau: Influential American thinker on such diverse later political positions and topics such as pacifism, anarchism, environmentalism and civil disobedience who influenced later important political activists such as Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy.
The main precedent was Henry David Thoreau, who, through his work Civil Disobedience, influenced both Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi's advocacy of Nonviolent resistance.
The main precedent was Henry David Thoreau, who, through his work Civil Disobedience and tax resistance, influenced both Leo Tolstoy and Mohandas Gandhi's advocacy of nonviolent resistance.
Gandhi had, in turn, been influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau.
" Muir was extremely fond of Thoreau and was probably influenced more by him than even Emerson.
In their initial move, the Nearings were driven by the circumstances of the Great Depression and influenced by earlier writers, particularly Henry David Thoreau.
It was influenced by the Indian Dharmic philosophy, particularly the Bhagvata Gita, as well as secular writings of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau and John Ruskin.
John Cage, for example, was influenced by ideas of Henry David Thoreau and other anarchist writers.
Krakauer interprets McCandless's intensely ascetic personality as possibly influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau, and McCandless's favorite writer, Jack London.
His Indian readings may have influenced his later experiments in simple living: at one point in Walden Thoreau wrote: " I realized what the Orientals meant by contemplation and the forsaking of works.
He influenced Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and especially Ralph Waldo Emerson who used his philosophical framework extensively in support of his own first book Nature.
Carlyle's theory of Natural Supernaturalism influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two admirers of Carlyle.
With the onset of industrialism in Victorian times, a small revival of arts towns was influenced by William Morris in the UK ; and by arts idealists such as Thoreau and Whitman in America, and brought into fulfillment by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright whose influence on supporting the artisan class, their folkish arts, and their use of natural local materials, led to rural revivals of arts towns since the 1970s.

Thoreau and naturalists
Science author Orville Prescott praised him as a scientist who “ can write with poetic sensibility and with a fine sense of wonder and of reverence before the mysteries of life and nature .“ Naturalist author Mary Ellen Pitts saw his combination of literary and nature writings as his " quest, not simply for bringing together science and literature ... but a continuation of what the 18th and 19th century British naturalists and Thoreau had done.

Thoreau and like
Moose meat tastes, wrote Henry David Thoreau in “ The Maine Woods ”, “ like tender beef, with perhaps more flavour ; sometimes like veal ”.
Amos Bronson Alcott and Thoreau's aunt each wrote that " Thoreau " is pronounced like the word " thorough ".
Political leaders and reformers like Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau's work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did " right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.
In the early 1960s Allen Sherman referred to Thoreau in his song parody " Here's To Crabgrass " about the suburban housing boom of that era with the line " Come let us go there and live like Thoreau there.
" The hippies were heirs to a long line of bohemians that includes William Blake, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Hesse, Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, utopian movements like the Rosicrucians and the Theosophists, and most directly the Beatniks.
Although often compared to authors like Thoreau or Aldo Leopold, Abbey did not wish to be known as a nature writer, saying that he didn't understand " why so many want to read about the world out-of-doors, when it's more interesting simply to go for a walk into the heart of it.
The American architect Louis Sullivan, Greenough's much younger compatriot, who admired rationalist thinkers like Greenough, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and Melville, coined the phrase in his article The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered in 1896 ( some fifty years after Greenough's death ).
It has been suggested that ' Issa is often very much like Thoreau '.
" Thoreau expanded it significantly: "... and I should like to see idea acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
He notes that Eiseley was, like Thoreau, a ' spiritual wanderer through the deserts of the modern world.
In 1849, Henry David Thoreau wrote " I heartily accept the motto, ' That government is best which governs least '; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

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