Henry David Thoreau
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He spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? did, and he enjoyed it. Thoreau wasn’t just a regular every day philosopher, but instead was a ....
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.... nature; at Walden Pond, Thoreau was able to test continually the validity of this thoety by living closely, day-to-day, with nature.
Solitude was a noble thing in his experiment. His experiment was based on him leaving the town to find a place where he can’t be bothered by outsiders and by the industrial revolution of America. He wanted to be alone and being able to concentrate on nature and his spiritual side. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in co ....
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