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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts and died in 1862. He went to school at Harvard University. After college he met Ralph Waldo Emerson, who urged him to write essays. In 1841 Thoreau moved to the Emerson house where he was the children's tutor, editorial assistant, and gardner. In July 1846 Thoreau refused to pay his taxes because he opposed slavery and the Mexican-Amercian War. He was put in jail for the night because of his refusal. Thoreau's most influential writings were "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience". Thoreau believed in simplicity. He believed that materialism would be the destruction of the environment. Thoreau inspired later environmental thinking. He inspired ideas like, national forest preserves and destructions caused by dams. His works also created environmental consciousness in later generations and continues to do so today.

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