posted January 21, 2008 02:48 PM         

- Henry David Thoreau

posted January 21, 2008 02:55 PM         

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

posted January 21, 2008 02:57 PM         

~ Henry David Thoreau

posted January 21, 2008 09:39 PM         

Star, that DOO of his in that picture you posted will not Do. LOL

The Doo won't Do, No, No it must go.

Actually he was a nice looking man but it looks like he has a rose on top of his head in that particular picture.

posted January 21, 2008 09:52 PM         

From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of his interior life and of his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. Unlike earlier editions, the Princeton edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus.

Journal 8: 1854 is edited from the 467-page notebook that Thoreau kept February 13-September 3, 1854. It reveals him as an increasingly confident taxonomist creating lists that distill his observations about plant leafing and seasonal birds. Two particularly significant public events took place in his life in the summer of 1854. On July 4, at an antislavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, Thoreau appeared for the first time in the company of prominent abolitionists, delivering as heated a statement against slavery as he had yet made. And on August 9, Ticknor and Fields published Walden, the book Thoreau had been working on since 1846. In Journal 8 Thoreau indicates that these public accomplishments, though satisfying, took a toll on his creative life and did not fully compensate him for the hours spent away from the woods.

Table of Contents:

MS Volume 1 XVII February 13, 1854-September 3, 1954 1
Index of MS Volume 317
EDITORIAL APPENDIX
Annotations 345
Map 378
Index 381
Notes on Illustrations 389
Acknowledgments 391
Editorial Contributions 393
Historical Introduction 394
Textual Introduction 413
Textual Notes 421
Emendations 425
Alternations 434
End-of-Line Hyphenation 487
Later Revisions 490
Cross-References to Published Versions 504

Series:

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Editor-in-Chief
Subject Areas:

posted January 22, 2008 01:34 PM         

Audio available for download: http://librivox.org/on-the-duty-of-civil-disobedience-by-henry-david-thoreau/

E-text available for online reading or download: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71

Walden:

Audio available for download: http://librivox.org/walden-by-henry-david-thoreau/

E-text available for online reading or download: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/205

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