https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv Made with ♥ en-us 2018-03-16 16:39:05 UTC 2025-12-10 01:23:55 UTC hello@padlet.com 477809 https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/242913334 was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. ]]> 2018-03-16 16:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/242913334 477809 https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/242913874  Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.]]> 2018-03-16 16:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/242913874 477809 https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/242914128 Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism.]]> 2018-03-16 16:41:59 UTC https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/242914128 477809 https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/242914555

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]]> 2018-03-16 16:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/242914911 477809 https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/244278761 O Nature! I do not aspire
To be the highest in thy choir, -
To be a meteor in thy sky,
Or comet that may range on high;
Only a zephyr that may blow
Among the reeds by the river low;
Give me thy most privy place
Where to run my airy race.

In some withdrawn, unpublic mead
Let me sigh upon a reed,
Or in the woods, with leafy din,
Whisper the still evening in:
Some still work give me to do, -
Only - be it near to you!

For I'd rather be thy child
And pupil, in the forest wild,
Than be the king of men elsewhere,
And most sovereign slave of care;
To have one moment of thy dawn,
Than share the city's year forlorn. 
- Henry David Thoreau]]> 2018-03-20 20:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/244278761 477809 https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/244279276 The poem Nature by Henry David Thoreau reflects the beliefs of Chris McCandless from Into the Wild because they both express freedom. Chris set out on his journey to get away from the dull life he knew, in search of adventure and the meaning of life. I think Henry shows the same behavior in his poem.]]> 2018-03-20 20:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/477809/by314ehxkdv/wish/244279276