Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, naturalist and a leading voice of New England Transcendentalism. Walden (1854) reflects on the two years he spent living simply in a cabin by Walden Pond, and his essay on civil disobedience has inspired movements of nonviolent resistance.

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/