Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.
Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. James Munroe and Company, 1849, p. 162.
In Ancient Rome, just as today even in democracies, contemporary historians–journalists–are much dependent on government for access to the facts behind various events and sometimes even the existence of the events themselves. Even in America, the most free and open country in the world there are still events from decades ago the American government has maintained are still secret and classified.
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
