He also took to reading Thoreau, whom he called his "worshiped friend."

He had been reading Thoreau, who said that a forced self-reliance and a life free from encumbrance could be found on the frontier.

Several of the characters have the feel of an acting-school exercise, especially the homeless man who conducts business over a cell phone and reads Thoreau.

Seven high-school boys at a stern prep school sneak off to a midnight-dark cave to read Whitman and Thoreau.

When he finds out that Mike is encouraging young Tommy to read Thoreau and think for himself, well, he can spot a Commie pretty far off.

"What do you want to bet he reads Thoreau?"

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that after reading Thoreau he saw how much he had missed by excluding nature from his life.

Please look again at what I wrote, and read Thoreau who I quote.

I was reading Thoreau and Whitman.

At Morehouse College, King had his first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance when he read Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."