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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
The writings of Henry David Thoreau
by Henry David Thoreau
I find that I conciliate the gods by some sacrament as bathing-or abstemiousness in diet-or rising early-and directly th...
Civil Disobedience
by Henry David Thoreau
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more...
Cape Cod
by Henry David Thoreau
Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two-thirds of the glo...
Walking
by Henry David Thoreau
I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely ci...
The Maine Woods
by Henry David Thoreau
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railro...
A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
by Henry David Thoreau
AT length, on Saturday, the last day of August, 1839, we two, brothers, and natives of Concord, weighed anchor in this r...
Walden, or, Life in the Woods / On the Duty of Civil Disobe...
by Henry David Thoreau
WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
Excursions
by Henry David Thoreau
HENRY DAVID THOREAU was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey...
Thoreau's Thoughts
by Henry David Thoreau
Reading, in a high sense, is not that which lulls us as a luxury and suffers the nobler faculties to sleep the while, bu...
The portable Thoreau
by Henry David Thoreau
BOOKS of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading.
Walden and Other Writings
by Henry David Thoreau
The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place i...
