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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ճ·𲹳·· [th, uh, -, roh, -vee-, uh, n], adjective
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Contra Thoreau, they all seem interested less in living life deliberately than deliberately avoiding life.

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At Los Rios, the students hike on a nature trail designed by Myers with boulders etched with quotes from Emerson, Thoreau and Muir.

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In “A Lesson From Aloes,” a character quotes Thoreau: “There is a purpose to life, and we will be measured by the extent to which we harness ourselves to it.”

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As a student, like many of us, I liked to read Henry David Thoreau.

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The first recorded use of brain rot dates much before the creation of the internet - it was written down in 1854 by Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden.

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