Lives · Biography
A life is an argument made in days.
Biography lets us test ideas against an actual life—its routines and refusals, friendships, contradictions, courage, and cost.
01 · 1817–1862 · Concord
Henry David
Thoreau
Writer, naturalist, neighbor, dissenter. He went to Walden not to escape life, but to find out what was necessary—and then returned to town.
Read the life Portrait: Library of Congress, public domain