... social institutions he considered immoral and for his faith in the religious significance of nature. The essay "Civil Disobedience" is his most famous social protest. Walden, a study of Thoreau's experiment in living close to nature, is chiefly responsible for his literary reputation. Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on ... 's raid at Harpers Ferry in "A Plea for Captain John Brown-. In 1845, Thoreau moved to the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. He lived there alone from July 4, 1845 to Sept. 6, 1847. Walden (1854) records Thoreau's observations of nature ther...

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