... country and throw it into civil war. Thoreau would write in difficult times. On 12 July 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, John Thoreau and Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau, give birth to a baby boy they name David Henry Thoreau. Helen Thoreau, John Thoreau, Jr., and Sophia Thoreau were his siblings. The young Thoreau, influenced by his mother's interest in nature, would explore his local ... for higher truth. He wrote, "a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterw...

• Word Count: 2159
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School