Thoreau

It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.

I still am in the stream of thought that started in this country with Emerson and Thoreau and Whitman.

Your book incorporates a number of literary quotes, as well as references to artists and thinkers like Van Gogh and Thoreau.

And of course, Thoreau wrote “Civil Disobedience” because of his disgust with the scourge of slavery in the United States.

At one point he quoted Thoreau: "It doesn't matter what you look at, it is what you see."

Such can live many lives; while a Thoreau can live but one, and that only with perpetual foresight.

Give old Mr. Thoreau any seat he wants,” said I, “only Mr. Emerson must sit beside him.

I drifted inland to Concord, a-foot, as a pilgrim to the town where Emerson and Thoreau had lived.

He had been the milkman to the Emerson and Thoreau families, and, in that capacity, had known both the great men.

Thoreau coveted its strong purple stalk for a cane, and the robins eat its dark crimson-juiced berries.