Henry David Thoreau

Few people are famously known for living in the woods, but Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is one of them. A founder of the 19th-century  transcendentalist movement, which believed in the interconnectedness of all creation, Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days living near Walden Pond northwest of Boston. His thoughts on the experience were collected in his 1854 book Walden, which remains one of history’s most important pieces of nature writing nearly 170 years after its publication.