"Henry David Thoreau (see name pronunciation; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay 'Civil Disobedience' (originally published as 'Resistance to Civil Government'), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. ... Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist. ..."
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Walden
"Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self reliance. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts."
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NY Times: At Walden, Thoreau Wasn’t Really Alone With Nature
New Republic: Everybody Hates Henry
[PDF] Walden
Ken Burns: Walden Film
YouTube: Walden (FULL Audiobook)
Walden, a Game
"... Henry David Thoreau’s classic 'Walden' is the inspiration for what Smithsonian Magazine is calling 'the world’s most improbable video game': Walden, a Game. Instead of offering the thrills of stealing, violence and copious cursing, the new video game, based on Thoreau’s 19th-century retreat in Massachusetts, will urge players to collect arrowheads, cast their fishing poles into a tranquil pond, buy penny candies and perhaps even jot notes in a journal — all while listening to music, nature sounds and excerpts from the author’s meditations. ..."
NY Times: In ‘Walden’ Video Game, the Challenge Is Stillness (Video)
Walden has been adapted into a video game, and you can play it right now (Video)
Walden, a Game
Walden: A downloadable game for Windows and macOS - $ (Video)
Civil Disobedience (1849)
"Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. ... The word civil has several definitions. The one that is intended in this case is 'relating to citizens and their interrelations with one another or with the state', and so civil disobedience means 'disobedience to the state'. ..."
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Open Culture: Henry David Thoreau on When Civil Disobedience and Resistance Are Justified (1849)
NY Times: It’s Tax Day. Don’t Forget to Read Thoreau.
[PDF] Civil Disobedience
YouTube: Thoreau and Civil Disobedience 5:25
YouTube: Civil Disobedience Part 1, Part 2
The Maine Woods (1864)
"... Thoreau’s 'The Maine Woods,' first published in 1864 (composed partly of articles he had written earlier for periodicals) and still in print, is an insightful reporter’s picture of a rugged wilderness the moment before being irrevocably altered by armies of loggers. Today the virgin forest seen by Thoreau is gone; trees have been cut, regrown and harvested again. 'It’s a working forest,' [Karen] Woodsum said. But modern travelers hikers, campers, hunters, fishers, canoeists or back road wanderers will still find, as Thoreau did, a land 'more grim and wild than you had anticipated.' It’s also pin-drop tranquil, teeming with wildlife and, in places, challenging to reach. ..."
NY Times: Tracking Thoreau Through Maine’s ‘Grim and Wild’ Land
On Thoreau’s Trail in the Maine Woods, a review by Ron Hoag
The Maine Woods
YouTube: The Maine Woods (FULL Audiobook)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack River
"A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) is a book by Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862). It is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, that Thoreau took with his brother John in 1839. John died of tetanus in 1842 and Thoreau wrote the book, in part, as a tribute to his memory. ...."
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[PDF] A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
amazon (Audible Audio Edition)
Walking (1862)
"Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817–May 6, 1862) was a man of extraordinary wisdom on everything from optimism to the true meaning of 'success' to the creative benefits of keeping a diary to the greatest gift of growing old. In his 1861 treatise Walking (free ebook | public library), penned seven years after Walden, he sets out to remind us of how that primal act of mobility connects us with our essential wildness, that spring of spiritual vitality methodically dried up by our sedentary civilization. ..."
The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
W - Walking
[PDF] Walking
Cape Cod
"Walking Cape Cod With Thoreau: Early in the morning of Thursday, Oct. 11, 1849, Henry David Thoreau set off to walk the 30 miles of uninterrupted beach facing the Atlantic at the tip of Cape Cod. A heavy rain was falling. Strong winds, the aftermath of a great storm, lashed the narrow strip of land known as the Lower Cape. Thoreau responded to the weather with the rising spirits of one who made it his business to deal forthrightly with nature. He unfurled his umbrella and strode on. Under an adjoining umbrella was his companion, William Eller Channing. An ideal traveling companion, Channing was everything Thoreau was not — impractical, disorganized, amenable. ..."
NY Times
Gutenberg: Cape Cod
YouTube: Thoreau’s Cape Cod
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