Henry David Thoreau

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En 1845, Henry David Thoreau part vivre dans une cabane construite de ses propres mains, au bord de l'étang de Walden, dans le Massachusetts...

Noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days chronicling his near-isolation in the small cabin he built in the woods....

At Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau reflected on simpler living in the natural world. By removing himself from the distractions of materialism, Thoreau hoped to not only improve his spiritual life but also gain a better understanding of society through solitary introspection....

In the early spring of 1845, Henry David Thoreau built and lived in a cabin near the shore of Walden Pond in rural Massachusetts....

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....

Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts....

In Walden & Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau invites us into his world of quiet reflection and moral courage.

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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of Concord for the country....

Step into the quiet mystery of the night with Henry David Thoreau’s Night and Moonlight, a luminous essay that transforms a simple moonlit walk into a meditation on nature, philosophy, and the rhythms of the cosmos.

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This essay by Thoreau first published in 1849, argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences....

One Man’s Journey Through the Forest—And into His Own Soul: Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods. “The Maine Woods” is a thoughtful and honest account of Henry David Thoreau’s journeys through the forests, rivers, and mountains of northern Maine.

This American classic details the experiences of Henry David Thoreau while he lived at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts....

Walden records the doctrines of transcendentalism that Thoreau lived, supported, and for which he became famous. He focuses on the concept of self-knowledge and encourages all people to find some way to learn more about themselves and the world around them....

Walking was first published in the June 1862 issue of Atlantic Monthly. In this treatise, Thoreau reminds us of how the primal act of walking connects us with nature....

Henry David Thoreau discusses walking, the importance of nature, and the human need for walking in the wilderness....

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” And so it began. Henry David Thoreau, at 27, built a tiny, one-room cabin in the woods — on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson — and began his two-year experiment in frugality....

Thoreau gives an account of three canoe and hiking journeys - by himself and with others - through the mostly uninhabited forests of Maine in the 1850s....