She purchased a house for her sister Anna which had been the last home of Henry David Thoreau, now known as the Thoreau-Alcott House.

) The experience had a strong impact on Thoreau.

American poet Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, " In one book ... he surpasses everything we have had in America.

When his aunt Louisa asked him in his last weeks if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded: " I did not know we had ever quarreled.

In his first chapter, " Economy ", Thoreau notes what he considers the valid objection of Momus / Momos against the house which Minerva / Athena made, that she " had not made it moveable, by which means a bad neighborhood might be avoided ".

Henry David Thoreau had suggested in 1838 that the death watch beetles sound similar to a heartbeat.

Gandhi had, in turn, been influenced by the writings of Henry David Thoreau.

American poet Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, " In one book ... he surpasses everything we have had in America.

Henry David Thoreau questioned the community members ' idealism and wrote in his journal, " As for these communities, I think I had rather keep bachelor's hall in hell than go to board in heaven ".

Henry David Thoreau traveled to New York, at the urging of Emerson, to search the shore but neither Fuller's body nor that of her husband was ever recovered ; only Angelino had washed ashore.

Henry David Thoreau had read " Nature " as a senior at Harvard College and took it to heart.

In 1832, William Ticknor and James Thomas Fields had gathered an impressive list of writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Jefferson had them built at Monticello, and Thoreau listed them among the modern conveniences that everyone took for granted.

In 1844, The Dial, a small literary publication edited by Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, published an English version of a portion of the Lotus Sutra ; it had been translated by Dial business manager Elizabeth Palmer Peabody from a French version recently completed by Eugène Burnouf.

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.

' However, notes Wentz, " Thoreau had left the seclusion of Walden Pond in order to pace the fields of history, sorting out the artifacts that people had dropped along the way.

The society flourished during the period of 1836 – 1860 in the Boston area and had some prominent and influential members including author and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ), poet Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 1892 ), and writer Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 62 ).

" Henry David Thoreau had considerable acquaintance with Indian philosophical works.

" During his formative years in India, he read the literary writings of American authors Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau and they too had deeply impressed him.

by the conviction that Henry Thoreau had

This aspect of Harkin's philosophy in viewing parks as national recreational grounds for therapeutic and rejuvenating effects was in part due to the influence of American wilderness preservationists, John Muir and Henry David Thoreau, both of whom Harkin had quoted in his departmental reports.

A version was taken up by the author Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience, and later by Gandhi in his doctrine of Satyagraha.

Henry David Thoreau, taken August 1861

Freneau's nature poem, " The Wild Honey Suckle " ( 1786 ), is considered an early seed to the later Transcendentalist movement taken up by William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau.

The name Morningstar is taken from the last sentence in Walden, a book by Henry David Thoreau ; " the sun is but a morning star ".

A version was taken up by Henry David Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience, and later by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in his doctrine of Satyagraha.

Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

* Henry David Thoreau published an account of travelling up the Penobscot from Bangor in 1846, to climb Mount Katahdin in his work, Ktaadn.

" Thoreau expanded it significantly: "... and I should like to see idea acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

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.

* Annotated version at The Thoreau Reader

Other holdings include material from ancient Egypt and medieval liturgical objects ( including Coptic literature examples ), Emile Zola, William Blake's original drawings for his edition of the Book of Job ; concept drawings for The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; a Percy Bysshe Shelley notebook ; originals of poems by Robert Burns ; a Charles Dickens manuscript of A Christmas Carol ; a journal by Henry David Thoreau ; an extraordinary collection of autographed and annotated libretti and scores from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Mahler and Verdi, and Mozart's Haffner Symphony in D Major ; and manuscripts of George Sand, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë and nine of Sir Walter Scott's novels, including Ivanhoe.

* 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.

Shorter works from many popular authors such as Jack London and Henry David Thoreau were published, as were a number of political tracts written by Robert Ingersoll or Haldeman-Julius himself.

In 1854, American author, poet, and political thinker Henry David Thoreau said, in a speech entitled " Slavery in Massachusetts ":

In a comparative study of Randolph of Roanoke and Thoreau, Weaver defined " individualism " in two ways: 1 ) " studied withdrawal from society " ( i. e. Thoreau ) and 2 ) " political action at the social level " ( i. e. Randolph ) ( Young 11 ).

In 1860, Edward Watson, a friend of Henry David Thoreau wrote a poem called " The Cranberry Tart.

At the end of this chapter, Thoreau inserts a poem, " The Pretensions of Poverty ," by seventeenth-century English poet Thomas Carew.

More than one hundred years later Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( poem, " The Battle of Lovells Pond "), Nathaniel Hawthorne ( story, " Roger Malvin's Burial ") and Henry David Thoreau all wrote about Lovewell's Fight.

More than one hundred years after his death Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( poem, " The Battle of Lovells Pond "), Nathaniel Hawthorne ( story, " Roger Malvin's Burial ") and Henry David Thoreau ( passage in the book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ) all wrote about Lovewell's Fight.

Further, the school holds works by Thoreau MacDonald and a collection of original paintings from the Group of Seven ( though several were auctioned by the college in an effort to pay for the lawsuits it faced in 2004 ); an original Stephen Leacock essay, titled Why Boys Leave Home A Talk on Camping, donated in 2005 and published for the first time in The Globe and Mail ; and the original manuscript of Robertson Davies ' work The Mask of Aesop, which he wrote in 1952 specifically for the Prep's 50th anniversary.