“Rather than love,
than money,than fame,
give me truth.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
*Henry David Thoreau
Born: July 12, 1817 Concord, Massachusetts
Died: May 6, 1862(1862-05-06) (aged 44) Concord, Massachusetts
An American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
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