Henry David Thoreau

On the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's birth, William Packard wrote: "His uniqucly personal form of moral protest is a timeless achievment in the same spirit as our Declaration of Independence and exerting a profound influence on thinkers and reformers from Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King. An astonishing variety of men have responded to Thoreau's example of uncompromising honesty and to his firm conviction that life without principle is not worth living."