Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience espouses the need to prioritize one’s conscience over the dictates of laws. When a government is unjust, people should refuse to follow the law and distance themselves from the government in general.

Disobedience

Today Henry is considered among the greatest of all American writers and the intellectual inspiration for the conservation movement. Thoreau inspired people to break the rules when you didn’t believe in them, to be an individual and to fight hard for something you love and believe in. That’s his impact on society.

“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”

It was created as a way for writers, thinkers, and philosophers to rebel against the norm, and its three essential values still followed today are individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature.

Thoreau’s main purpose in living at Walden Pond was to remove himself from the mainstream culture found in the nearby towns. In order to justify his attempt to escape from society, Thoreau criticizes the hurried and fast-paced way of life which was so common during the Industrial Revolution.

What did Thoreau learn from his experiment in the woods? that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Thoreau wanted to tell us that there is magic to be found when we realize this. Each morning symbolizes your life, renewed and beginning again. Each morning is an entire opportunity to be born again and live an entirely new day in a new life, a new lens, almost as if an entirely new body.

In the conclusion of Walden he writes, “I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. He lived a relatively self-reliant life and discovered what it meant to “be alive.” At Walden, Thoreau lived his life on his terms and and, in his words, endeavored to live the life that he imagined.

When Henry David Thoreau says that he wishes to “live deliberately” in Walden, he means that he wants to live in such a way that he does as much of the things that make him happy as possible.

Research in empirical psychology shows that, contrary to what Thoreau claims, most people in the world are, in fact, generally happy. Even people in difficult conditions are usually happy. Thoreau’s claim is simply false: the mass of people in the world do not lead a life of quiet desperation but, rather, of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

The Desperate Treadmill of Desire. Thoreau’s famous quote — “The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation” — is most frequently used as a reason for following one’s passion and achieving a life which avoids the mediocrity of playing it small and attains to extra-ordinary success.

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.

9. Which crop did Thoreau raise in the greatest quantity?

• Beans.
• Peas.
• Potatoes.
• Turnips.

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