Henry David Thoreau
...1847, resided with Emerson from 1847 to 1848, and spent the years from 1849 with his parents and sister in Concord. During his residence at Walden Pond and elsewhere in Concord, Thoreau supported by himself by doing odd jobs, such as gardening, carpentry, and Medine3 land surveying . The major portion of his time was devoted to the study of nature, to meditating on philosophical problems, to reading Greek, Latin, French, and English literature, and to long conversations with his neighbors. Only two of Thoreau’s book were published in his lifetime, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden; or, Life in the Woods. The materials for most of the other volumes was edited posthumously by the authors friends from his journal manuscripts, and letters. Henry David Thoreau was a great writer and he Medine4 cared about nature a lot .He was also a good philosopher. Medine 5 ...