1. HENRY DAVID THOREAU BY: HANNAH SMITH

2. A BIT ABOUT HIM Born in 1817 at Concord, Massachusetts Died in 1862 at Concord, Massachusetts Died of Tuberculosis Attended Harvard with monetary help from older brother, John During Progressive Era praised the beauty and majesty of American landscape He was the most notable literary figure of the early conservation movement Worked for several years as a surveyor and made pencils Wrote first book ‘Walden’ in self-made cabin at Walden pond Was imprisoned briefly for not paying his poll tax His last words were said to be ‘Moose’ and ‘Indian’

3. INTERESTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Reform and the Reformers really shows why he was interested in reform He was frustrated with the amount of reformers: prohibitionists, utopian communists, free love advocates, religious revivalists He feels like reformers are working to hide their need for self-reform by being overly philanthropic His book Walden was about living close to nature and it is one of his most well known works Civil Disobedience was his most well known essay, he wrote it after his stay in jail Civil Disobedience has inspired many leaders of protest movements around the world such as Martin Luther King Jr and Ghandi A Plea for Captain John Brown was written when Thoreau took a stand for a radical abolitionist who led an uprising against slavery in Virginia Thoreau's studies of nature were equally radical in their own way, earning him the moniker of "father of environmentalism”

4. SIGNIFICANT QUOTES “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

5. HIS IMPACT Was an active voice for the philosophy of Transcendentalism and for social principles, such as the abolition of slavery Made detailed drawings and collected specimens for local botany libraries In his essay "Succession of Forest Trees," Henry laid out for the first time the theory of forest succession which explains the maturing process of an ecosystem from basic mosses and legumes to a fully formed hardwood forest His book Walden influenced many people to save and protect the environment, John Muir read it and was inspired to ask Theodore Roosevelt to declare Yosemite a national park

6. QUIZ TIME 1.What was Thoreau’s most influential book about nature? Walden 2.What was the name of the abolitionist that Thoreau supported? Captain John Brown 3.What were two of Thoreau’s earliest jobs? Surveyor and pencil maker 4.What did Thoreau feel reformers were really doing? Working to hide their need for self-reform 5.Who are two of the famous peace protestors his essay Civil Disobedience impacted? Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi

7. CITATIONS http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/thoreau/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_in_the_United_States#Conservation_movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_and_the_Reformers http://www.biography.com/people/henry-david-thoreau-9506784#early-life https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10264.Henry_David_Thoreau http://www.worldwidewaldens.org/meet-thoreau-5-impact/