Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, into a “modest New England family” of John Thoreau, a pencil maker, and Cynthia Dunbar. His grandfather was born on the Crown dependency island of Jersey in the UK. His grandfather, Asa Dunbar, led Harvard’s 1766 student “Butter Rebellion”, the … Read more