evidence: A lot of people don’t like Henry David Thoreau. People I’ve talked to have found the 19th-century writer to be annoying, hyper-masculine, hypocritical and unrealistic. He painted himself as a rugged individualist, they say, faring all by himself in his little Walden hut. [...] But the goal of this article is not to just defend Thoreau. That’s been done by many others, and a lot of you probably don’t care about Thoreau enough one way or the other. And so instead, I wish to present some good Thoreau quotes and explain them as I see relevant for us; as Washington and Lee students, as young people, and as Gen-Zers.