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Chris Mcandles was and admirer of Henry David Thoreau, and adopted many of the writers ideals into his own life. He sought simplicity in his own life and tried adhering to material goods and societal norms. Chris also believed that they were meant to find themselves through deliberate solitude. They took steps to live apart from others.

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The poem Nature by Henry David Thoreau is a poem that makes you feel that nothing in the world is more important than to be outside near nature, you rather sigh upon a reed than be a king of men. The poem will make you realize how far more relaxing nature can be as opposed to being somewhere else. It is evident that in this poem, Henry David Thoreau is very passionate about being next to nature, and that nothing in the world can be better to him than to be near nature.

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
"Civil Disobedience" (1849)
"Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854)
Walden (1854)
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
"Walking" (1861)
The Maine Woods (1864)
Cape Cod (1865)

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature
-- not his Father but his Mother stirs
within him, and he becomes immortal with her
immortality. From time to time she claims
kindredship with us, and some globule
from her veins steals up into our own.

I am the autumnal sun,
With autumn gales my race is run;
When will the hazel put forth its flowers,
Or the grape ripen under my bowers?
When will the harvest or the hunter's moon
Turn my midnight into mid-noon?
I am all sere and yellow,
And to my core mellow.
The mast is dropping within my woods,
The winter is lurking within my moods,
And the rustling of the withered leaf
Is the constant music of my grief...

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an idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.

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Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.