THOREAU Definition & Meaning

Thoreau

[thuh-roh, thawr-oh, thohr-oh]

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noun

Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.

Thoreau

/ ˈθɔːrəʊ, θɔːˈrəʊ /

noun

Henry David. 1817–62, US writer, noted esp for Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of his experiment in living in solitude. A powerful social critic, his essay Civil Disobedience (1849) influenced such dissenters as Gandhi

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Thoreauvian adjective

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For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

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Just ask Henry David Thoreau, who was lamenting in 1854 that our lives are being “frittered away by detail.”

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At Los Rios, the students hike on a nature trail designed by Myers with boulders etched with quotes from Emerson, Thoreau and Muir.

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In “A Lesson From Aloes,” a character quotes Thoreau: “There is a purpose to life, and we will be measured by the extent to which we harness ourselves to it.”

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As a student, like many of us, I liked to read Henry David Thoreau.

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Thorazine Thoreau, Henry David

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