Henry David Thoreau

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1817 On this day, Henry David Thoreau was born (d. May 6, 1862), American tax resister, anti-war activist, essayist and author, most famous for Walden, his book about voluntary simplicity and living close to Nature, and his influential treatise on civil disobedience (Civil Disobedience), which inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King ...

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