Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 and died in 1862. He ws an American author, naturalist, as well as a philosopher. Thoreau is most known for Walden. Thoreau actually lived in the woods of Walden pond for about two years. At the pond he wrote about nature, and produced some essays during his stay in the woods.
While in the woods Thoreau wrote an essay entitled Walking. In this essay he rambles on and on about walking as well as nature and "wildness". He has a very different writing style than most other authors I am familiar with. Thoreau usually talks of random things and rambles on and on about a subject, so when I read Walking it was hard to understand what he meant. Never the less, he had and interesting view of the world in the time period he was living in, he was very in touch with nature, and realized, unlike most people in his time, that nature needs to be conserved and the world needs to be taken care of before it is too late. It was interesting to know that someone such a long time ago, when there seemed to be nothing harming the environment, was thinking about the effects of people on the environment.