The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail ( 1970 ) was a Vietnam-era exploration of Thoreau's resistance to an earlier war.

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail ( 1970 ) was a Vietnam-era exploration of Thoreau's resistance to an earlier war.

Among the early influences on individualist anarchism were William Godwin, Henry David Thoreau ( transcendentalism ), Josiah Warren (" sovereignty of the individual "), Lysander Spooner (" natural law "), Pierre Joseph Proudhon ( mutualism ), Anselme Bellegarrigue, Herbert Spencer (" law of equal liberty "), and Max Stirner ( egoism ).

In 1851, Thoreau became increasingly fascinated with natural history and travel / expedition narratives.

Thoreau was an early advocate of recreational hiking and canoeing, of conserving natural resources on private land, and of preserving wilderness as public land.

Thoreau visited the mountain four times between 1844 and 1860 and spent a great deal of time observing and cataloging natural phenomenon.

Thus, after describing his house's beautiful natural surroundings and his casual housekeeping habits, Thoreau goes on to criticize the train whistle that interrupts his reverie.

" Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau ’ s endorsement of living alone in natural simplicity, apart from modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy, calling it " womanish solicitude ; for there is something unmanly, something almost dastardly " about the lifestyle.

They took as their inspiration such European masters as Claude Lorrain, John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, and shared a reverence for America's natural beauty with contemporary American writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The US movement expanded in the 1800s, out of concerns for protecting the natural resources of the West, with individuals such as John Muir and Henry David Thoreau making key philosophical contributions.

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.

A transcendentalist and mystic in the tradition of Thoreau and Emerson, whose works he read, Kent found inspiration in the austerity and stark beauty of wilderness.

Henry David Thoreau and other 19th-century visitors remarked on the beauty of the area. Hunters at Camp Russell, northeast of Moosehead Lake, 1888

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, likely from an illness he caught from Alcott two years earlier.

On June 9, 1944 the trustees approved another coat of arms based on the shield part of the seal, this one by Canadian artist and designer Thoreau MacDonald.

* 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.

* July 4 – Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a 2-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond ( see Walden ).

Thoreau needed to concentrate and get himself working more on his writing.

" Two months later, Thoreau embarked on a two-year experiment in simple living on July 4, 1845, when he moved to a small, self-built house on land owned by Emerson in a second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond.

) The experience had a strong impact on Thoreau.

Thoreau self-published on the advice of Emerson, using Emerson's own publisher, Munroe, who did little to publicize the book.

Thoreau left Walden Pond on September 6, 1847.

Thoreau moved out of Emerson's house in July 1848 and stayed at a home on Belknap Street nearby.

Today, Thoreau is regarded as one of the foremost American writers, both for the modern clarity of his prose style and the prescience of his views on nature and politics.

Thoreau was also an important influence on late 19th century anarchist naturism.

" In a similar vein, poet John Greenleaf Whittier detested what he deemed to be the " wicked " and " heathenish " message of Walden, decreeing that Thoreau wanted man to " lower himself to the level of a woodchuck and walk on four legs.

* The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform by Henry David Thoreau, Wendell Glick, editor, ( 2004 ) ISBN 0-691-11876-0.

He has served on the editorial board of Environmental History, as chairman of the board for The Center for American Places, and as editor in chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau.

New Thought was further developed by William James and Henry David Thoreau who questioned the science behind Quimby and Eddy's theories but agreed with New Thought's focus on agency and reason as methods to perceive and experience a more fulfilling life.

Much later, the work of Hāfez would leave a mark on such Western writers as Thoreau, Goethe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson -- the latter referring to him as " a poet's poet.

Thoreau conducted a two year experiment living a plain and simple life on the shores of Walden Pond.

It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown ’ s raid on Harper ’ s Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown ’ s execution on December 2, 1859.

In the mid-19th century important leaders included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803 – 1882 ) and Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ).

Some individualist anarchists, such as Thoreau, do not speak of economics but simply the right of " disunion " from the state, and foresee the gradual elimination of the state through social evolution.

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.

A number of other Maine lakes, such as South Twin Lake, are described by Thoreau.

The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton ( plural myriads ) and Thoreau ( a myriad of ), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English.

For a time during the 19th century pantheism was the theological viewpoint of many leading writers and philosophers, attracting figures such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in Britain ; Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Germany ; Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the USA.

There have also been many instances of solitary civil disobedience, such as that committed by Thoreau, but these sometimes go unnoticed.

Some theorists suggest civil disobedience is, itself, a right, and it was advocated by thinkers such as Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, Western intellectuals such as Schopenhauer, Henry David Thoreau, Max Müller and esoteric societies such as the Theosophical Society of H. P.

Their significance has been recognized by writers and scholars such as Schopenhauer, Emerson and Thoreau, among others.

It travels almost exclusively through the Navajo Indian reservation, and only passes through a few small towns or villages ( such as Crownpoint, NM, Thoreau, NM ).

The philosophical roots of environmentalism can be traced back to enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau in France and, later, the author and naturalist Thoreau in America.

In spending several chapters lamenting the state of the arts in America he fails to envision the literary Renaissance that would shortly arrive in the form of such major writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.

John Updike wrote in 2004, " A century and a half after its publication, " Walden " has become such a totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset, and Thoreau so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible.

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.

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.

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.

In the 19th century, the Swiss humanitarian Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ; the American transcendentalists Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau ; the founders of progressive education, John Dewey and Francis Parker ; and educational pioneers, such as Friedrich Fröbel, Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner ( founder of the Waldorf schools ); among others, all insisted that education should be understood as the art of cultivating the moral, emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the developing child.