Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was a nineteenth-century author and philosopher from Massachusetts who was one of the leading figures of the transcendentalism movement. Transcendentalism focused on the goodness of nature, human possibility, and a free-form spirituality that separated itself from Christianity. Thoreau's Walden, a meditation on the two years he spent in a cabin in the woods by Walden Pond, is considered a classic of the genre.