Henry David Thoreau's Influence On Religion

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, and died on May 6, 1862. He attended Harvard College from 1833 to 1837 and he lived in Hollis Hall and took courses in philosophy, science, classics, mathematics, and rhetoric. Thoreau was an American essayist, an abolitionist, a poet, a naturalist, a transcendentalist, and a practical philosopher. He began writing poems about nature around 1840, together with Ralph Waldo Emerson (as a mentor and a friend). In 1845 he began his “personal experiment” in two years in Walden Pond, (near Concord, Massachusetts) which he wrote his famous work, Walden, of the life in the woods. His goal was to explore and discover everything about human nature, so he observed different flora and fauna, numerous ponds, local farms and seasonal changes. Thoreau analyzed that in fall the color of the trees changed, in winter everything enters in a frozen state, and the Earth melts leading to spring, where varieties of birds and animals are present, and pine trees begin to pollinate. William Deresiewicz was born in 1964 in Englewood, New Jersey, and he is still alive today. He grew up Jewish and attended a yeshiva high school (Jewish institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts).
In my opinion, the author forms radical conclusions about solitude. I do not agree with Deresiewicz that we need to have our time of loneliness because loneliness only brings us hopelessness and sadness. In his point of view, technology is something negative in our lives because it does not let us being alone, yes, it really interrupts our loneliness, but I see this as something positive because we need to have company 24 hours a day to have some hope and to be truly