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Henry David Thoreau spent his life in voluntary poverty, fascinated 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? Henry David Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it.
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817, on his grandmother's farm. Thoreau, who was of French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry, was baptized as David Henry Thoreau, but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry David. He was raised with his older sister Helen, older brother John, and younger sister Sophia in an impoverished home. It quickly became evident that Thoreau was interested in literature and writing. At a young age he began to show interest writing, and he wrote his first essay, "The Seasons," at the tender age of ten, while attending Concord Academy. In 1833, at the age of sixteen, Henry David was accepted to Harvard University, but his parents could not afford the cost of tuition so his sister, Helen, who had begun to teach, and his aunts offered to help. With the assistance of his family and the beneficiary funds of Harvard he went to Cambridge in August 1833 and entered Harvard on September first. In December 1835, Thoreau decided to leave Harvard and attempt to earn a living by teaching, but that only lasted about a month and a half. He returned to college in the fall of 1836 and graduated in 1837. Thoreau's years at Harvard University gave him one great
gift, an introduction to the world of literature.
Upon his return from college, Thoreau's family found him to be less likely to accept opinions as facts, more argumentative, and extremely prone to shock people with his own independent and unconventional opinions. During this time he discovered his secret
desire to be a poet, but most of all he wanted to live with freedom to think and act as he wished. Immediately after graduation...
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