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    Thoughts of Thoreau
    Thoughts of Thoreau
    Thoughts of Thoreau
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    Thoughts of Thoreau

    By Richard Cameron

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    In his own day, Henry David Thoreau was not a highly influential personality, more a minor irritation to the Establishment with his views that were regarded as akin to advocating anarchy and his anti-slavery sentiments. He was one of the first to put forward the concept of civil disobedience as a way to counter bad government, which was later adopted with notable success by Gandhi and others. But he was also a poet, environmentalist, teacher, philosopher and essayist.

    Today he is recognised as a great thinker, well ahead of his time. His writings contain a great deal of wisdom and idealism. In this book, you will find many quotations to provoke thought and discussion and raise questions that are very relevant to our own day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMTB
    Release dateOct 6, 2014
    ISBN9781311772923
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      Thoughts of Thoreau - Richard Cameron

      THOUGHTS OF THOREAU

      BY

      RICHARD CAMERON

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Richard Cameron

      Disclaimer

      While every effort has been made to ensure the information in this book is correct, human error is always a possibility and therefore the author cannot accept responsibility for any inaccuracies.

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      ABOUT HIMSELF

      FRIENDS

      GENERAL PHILOSPHY

      HAPPINESS

      HUMANKIND

      KNOWLEDGE

      LIFE

      LOVE

      MONEY

      MORALITY

      NATURE

      SPIRITUALITY

      SUCCESS

      THE PRESENT MOMENT

      TIME

      TRUTH

      INTRODUCTION

      Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1861), born in Concord, Massachusetts, was one of America’s most original thinkers and forward-looking philosophers. He was an early abolitionist against the slave trade, a teacher and believer in practical education in which real experiences, such as nature walks and visits to businesses were valued more than just words in a classroom. He was a skilled poet, essayist and a champion of the environment, an early ecologist.

      Today he is rightly admired; but in his day his influence was slight. He was dismissed as an anarchist for advocating less governmental control over people’s lives. Yet as an advocate of passive resistance and civil disobedience, he influenced such later figures as Tolstoy, Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

      He preferred a simple life that was in tune with nature and much of his writing foreshadows our own age

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