- One of the leading personalities in New England Transcendentalism, his "Civil Disobedience" (1849) influenced Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King
- Sold the famous house on Walden Pond he built for himself to Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Surname pronounced Ther-ROW. He reversed the order of his first two names after graduating from Harvard in 1837.
- He and his family were part of the Underground Railroad, the network which aided fugitive slaves on their way north to freedom.
- Nonfiction book: "Walden", 1854.
- Nonfiction book: "Wild Fruits", written 1860, published 1999.
- Pictured on a USA nondenominated commemorative postage stamp issued 23 May 2017. Price on day of issue was 49¢.
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