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Historical photographic portraitBenjamin D. Maxham; restored reproduction · Public domain

Henry David Thoreau

Writer and naturalist whose accounts of deliberate living and civic conscience invite close attention to circumstances. Supplied archive attributions retain their uncertainty; the linked Walden is a separate reading edition.

1817 AD – 1862 AD · 427 collected ↗