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Thoreauvian

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Tho·reau  (th-r, thôr), Henry David 1817-1862.
American writer. A seminal figure in the history of American thought, he spent much of his life in Concord, Massachusetts, where he became associated with the New England transcendentalists and lived for two years on the shore of Walden Pond (1845-1847). His works include "Civil Disobedience" (1849) and Walden (1854).

Tho·reauvi·an (-v-n) adj.
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Adj.1.Thoreauvian - relating to or like or in the manner of Henry David Thoreau


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At this site Joel Sternfeld has catalogued, with Thoreauvian attention to detail, the variety and bounty of what the photographs' titles identify as the East Meadows.
When Jackson's Island stays near-apocalyptically flooded for a couple of days rabbits, turtles and "such things" appear on every broken-down tree, "so tame, on account of being hungry, that you could paddle right up and put your hand on them if you wanted to" (obiter dictum, there is no trace anywhere in the novel of the coveted Thoreauvian icons of wildness: the loon, the moose, or the beaver).
Kateb offers paeans to individual audacity and a Thoreauvian insistence that no one need be an instrument of injustice, but emphasizes that collective human behavior exhibits “political ruthlessness tending toward brutal excess and extremism and accompanied by intoxicated or thoughtless moral indifference.
 
 
 
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