Author: Henry David Thoreau

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. Modernity rul...

Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreaus experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the authors transc...

From Thoreaus renowned Journal, a treasury of memorable, funny, and sharply observed accounts of his encounters with the wild and domestic animals ...

In 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just over two years. ...

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone i...

This summation of his life''s work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less ...

No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature of much o...