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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau lived from 1817 to 1862 in the northeastern United States. His older sister and brother, who were both schoolteachers, saved enough money for his college education to send him to Harvard. That is also the college his grandfather went to many years earlier.
At Harvard, he studied English, mathematics, history, and mental, natural, and intellectual philosophy. Thoreau enhanced his education by choosing to take foreign languages, such as French, Italian, German, and Spanish (Withrell). He graduated from Harvard University in 1837 and started keeping a journal, which was later published, depicting his seriousness, determination, and elevation of moral values (Jacobus 141).
His family business was pencil making. He used his education from Harvard to improve the engineering that went to manufacturing pencils. His improved process made his families pencils equal to those manufactured by the previously superior Farber Company from Germany. Thoreau was a man of many talents and held many different professions in his lifetime. He was a gardener, house painter, carpenter, laborer, mason, schoolmaster, private tutor, surveyor, and sometimes a writer. Actually, all of those jobs were only used to fund his passion for writing (Withrell).
Thoreau lived in Concord Massachusetts but being a loner, he moved to the country for a while. His good friend Ralph Waldo Emerson owned some land in the country near Walden Pond, and Thoreau moved into the woods and built a log cabin. In the rural area of Walden Pond, Thoreau planted a garden and lived a simple life. This allowed ample time for reading, thinking, walking, observing, and of course writing. Thoreau was revitalized by the experience and wrote of the spiritual uplift that came from communing with nature (Jacobs 141). He loved the solitude of roaming in the woods alone as reflected in this quote. "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude"...
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