Thoreau

[ thuh-roh, thawr-oh, thohr-oh ]

noun

1. Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.

Thoreau

/ ˈθɔːrəʊ; θɔːˈrəʊ /

noun

1. ThoreauHenry David18171862MUSWRITING: writerSOCIAL SCIENCE: social critic Henry David. 1817–62, US writer, noted esp for Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of his experiment in living in solitude. A powerful social critic, his essay Civil Disobedience (1849) influenced such dissenters as Gandhi

Other Words From

• Tho·reau·vi·an [th, uh, -, roh, -vee-, uh, n], adjective

Example Sentences

It was 1854 when Henry David Thoreau wrote: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation."

From BBC

I recognized the emphasis on Henry David Thoreau, an American writer who lived not far from where I had grown up in Massachusetts.

From New York Times

This quote is attributed to Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and philosopher: “The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.”

From Seattle Times

A dozen years ago, he startlingly staged a quasi-operatic interpretation of Cage’s 1970 “Song Books,” an almost-anything-goes theatrical endorsement of Thoreau’s call for anarchy that included the great opera star Jessye Norman.

From Los Angeles Times

Humphreys’s hometown project is inviting, a reminder of Thoreau’s wisdom that: “It matters not where or how far you travel — the farther commonly the worse — but how much alive you are.”

From New York Times