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Henry David Thoreau
He spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it. Thoreau wasn’t just a regular every day philosopher, but instead was a great transcendentalist. He believed in spiritual life of solitude, t ....
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.... time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone.” I think the reason for him being in love with himself and being by himself is that he thinks you have to be alone to be able to appreciate nature. You have to imagine and go into a spiritual world to become part of nature. He wants to be alone so he can get to know who he is, by doing this he can then think about how he fits into part of nature. We all know ....
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