This essay is about Henry David Thoreau and it supposert the idea that he lived what he wrote.

Henry David Thoreau
"If a man does not keep peace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured (Thoreau, Walden)." This quote comes from writer Henry David Thoreau, author of several writings including Walden and Civil Disobedience. Thoreau was a man of thought and criticized mankinds way of life, and in his time this was unheard of. Thoreau also criticized government to the fullest. Thoreau felt "That government is best which governs not at all (Thoreau, Civil Disobedience)." Thoreau once gave up his…