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Articles about Helen and Sophia?
Should there be articles about his sisters? They were active in the abolitionist movement. More information available on Sophia than on Helen. David notMD (talk) 04:13, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Works section is a mess
The works section italicizes every title, even letters to the editor, making it look like Thoreau wrote scores of books, which is not at all true. This material should be grouped into separate lists of 1) the books he published in his life (italicized), 2) the most significant essays and poems he published in his life (in quotation marks), and 3) the books that have been published posthumously, with a note that these have been compiled and edited by scholars (Thoreau did not leave ready-to-go book manuscripts). WindSandAndStars (talk) 22:47, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Thoreau's sexuality
Is it worth a mention that his brother and his sisters also never married? Just wondering. May have had more to do with family history with tuberculosis rather than sexual orientation. David notMD (talk) 18:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Both Thoreau and his brother John proposed marriage to the same pretty 18 year-old Ellen Sewall, but she rejected both. This should be in the article, IMO. HouseOfChange (talk) 03:20, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

Influence section needs a rewrite
Better organization could make it clearer. It makes little sense to include the current laundry list of "influencees," most with no RS supporting their inclusion.

Let's also break down the "influence," separating Thoreau's contemporaries from later generations. That seems more clear-cut than separating it into transcendentalism, nature writing, and political thought. What do others think? HouseOfChange (talk) 00:31, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Call for discussion of "anarchist" claims about Thoreau
Its embarrassing that the intro paragraphs includes a witless and ignorant misreading of Thoreaus government is best that governs least... when I see that as "evidence" that he is an anarchist, I know without a doubt that anyone that believes that has NEVER READ A SINGLE BOOK OR ARTICLE BY THOREAU. And they have no right to edit his wiki page.

Thoreau's writing uses a lot of poetical devices like irony and provocation. He isn't writing a dry science book where he creates an equation of "zero government=best government" which is frankly an embarrassing and pathetic interpertation. It is a provocative way of saying that he doesn't believe in an invasive government that tries to run your life, that comes into your home and regulates how much water you use, etc. He believed in individuality and people coming to ethical decisions upon themselves, he was against group think, churches, and so on, telling people in an ideological sense of what to believe. That by no means he believes in a radical and really untenable position of literally no government.

When people mock wikipedia as an unreliable source, THIS is what they are talking about. Whoever keeps editing in he was an anarchist is an ideologically minded fool who is trying to appropriate popular historical figures to be on their side, and they cherry pick quotes that out of context can be intreated as such. That isn't how you read literature nor is it his meaning.

I'm deleting it. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask me. I studied Thoreau at university under one of the internationally leading experts on Thoreau. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.118.3 (talk) 01:52, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


 * You clearly have a strong opinion about this, but that's not sufficient to justify deleting this material. Do you have any reliable citations to back up your claim that Thoreau was not trying to express genuine anarchist opinions, but was merely concerned about "an invasive government... that comes into your home and regulates how much water you use" when he wrote the following to lead off his most famous essay?:
 * I heart­ily accept the motto, — “That gov­ern­ment is best which gov­erns least;” and I should like to see it acted up to more rap­idly and sys­tem­at­i­cally. Car­ried out, it fi­nally amounts to this, which also I believe, — “That gov­ern­ment is best which gov­erns not at all;” and when men are pre­pared for it, that will be the kind of gov­ern­ment which they will have. Gov­ern­ment is at best but an ex­pe­di­ent; but most gov­ern­ments are usu­ally, and all gov­ern­ments are some­times, in­ex­pe­di­ent. The ob­jec­tions which have been brought against a stand­ing army, and they are many and weighty, and de­serve to pre­vail, may also at last be brought against a stand­ing gov­ern­ment.
 * Also, please sign your comments here so we know whose opinions we're reading. —Moorlock (talk) 04:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree with the IP (who is not me) that the lead gives too great an emphasis to Thoreau's "anarchism." Thoreau's nature writing, his literary influence, his abolitionism, the political influence of his civil disobedience -- the lead treats all these briefly, in summary form, but his possible "anarchism" gets a whole paragraph, in final position to boot. Per MOS:LEAD "The lead should identify the topic and summarize the body of the article with appropriate weight." That lengthy quote, including Thoreau's disclaimer, should perhaps be in the body of the article, but not in the lead. I also question the appropriateness of the obtrusive "Libertarian" sidewalls near the top of the article. HouseOfChange (talk) 04:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Around the 69-70 footnote in this article a rendering of Emerson is misidentified as Thoreau.
Around the 69-70 footnote in this article a rendering of Emerson is misidentified as Thoreau. 2601:18C:8380:9D60:7049:9F31:DF1A:94EA (talk) 19:32, 25 June 2023 (UTC)


 * ❌. Thank you for brining this up. However: it is, in fact, a picture of Thoreau. Thoreau and Emerson looked very similar as young men. Professor Penguino (talk) 03:26, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
 * It is sourced from the Walden official website. You can see more information about the rendering on | its page on Wikimedia Commons. Professor Penguino (talk) 03:29, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Sexuality
I think there should be more than one source for the claim that he wrote a homoerotic poem about an 11 year old. I looked the poem up read it. Google searched and it seems the internet is split between this version of the story and he is talking about his younger self. Obviously Google search isn’t researching, but the fact it doesn’t pull up any real evidence suggests there needs to be more research before this is stated as fact. 107.161.47.185 (talk) 05:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)