“I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?”

— Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)

About Henry David Thoreau

1817 – 1862

American essayist, poet and naturalist, best known for 'Walden', his account of living simply in a cabin near Walden Pond.

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