While the Thoreau household was home to a close-knit family, they struggled financially through most of Thoreau's childhood and well into his adolescence. Thoreau's father was nearly as much of a wandering soul as his son would become. David Henry was named for a recently deceased relative, but by all accounts was always called Henry by his family. The Thoreaus' last child, Sophia, was born in 1819. The newest Thoreau joined siblings Helen (born 1812, five months after the parents' marriage) and John, jr. Thoreau is not a simple subject.ĭavid Henry Thoreau was born on Jin Concord, Massachusetts to John and Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau. This minor wrinkle in how one of the most contradictory voices for wilderness and wildness is remembered is quite appropriate.
This saying is often misquoted and the preservation of the world attributed to wilderness.
"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in his essay "Walking" (Finch & Elder, p.
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