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	Thoreau Reader
		Thoreau's 1845 experiment in living well, with old and new photos, Henry's own survey of Walden, the Walden Express and Ask Jimmy for students, a brief history of Walden, and a new report on "progress" at the pond.
		In 1854, Thoreau railed against a culture whose primary focus is financial.
		In 1862, Thoreau described "wildness" as a treasure to be preserved, rather than a resource to be plundered.
	thoreau.eserver.org (768 words)

	Henry David Thoreau (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Thoreau viewed his existential quest as a venture in philosophy, in the ancient Greek sense of the word, because it was motivated by an urgent need to find a reflective understanding of reality that could inform a life of wisdom.
		Thoreau's experience bore fruit in the 1854 publication of his literary masterpiece Walden, a work that almost defies categorization: it is a work of narrative prose which often soars to poetic heights, combining philosophical speculation with close observation of a concrete place.
		Thoreau was a literate and enthusiastic classicist, whose study of ancient Greek and Roman authors convinced him that philosophy ought to be a lived practice: so he can profitably be grouped with other nineteenth-century thinkers, such as Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, who pointed out the limitations of the abstract philosophy of the early modern period.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/thoreau (6232 words)

	Henry David Thoreau - MSN Encarta
		Thoreau’s best-known work is Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), which embodies his philosophy and reflects his independent character.
		In 1845 Thoreau moved to a crude hut on the shores of Walden Pond, a small body of water on the outskirts of Concord.
		A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is the narrative of a boating trip that Thoreau took with his brother in August 1839; it is a combination of nature study and metaphysical speculation and bears the distinctive impress of the author's engaging personality.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552346/Thoreau_Henry_David.html (592 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Henry David Thoreau
		Thoreau had agreed to pay for any copies of the book which were not sold; ultimately few were sold, and he lost $275 on the deal.
		James Russell Lowell, with whom Thoreau had long had a contentious relationship, was the editor of the publication and deleted a sentence from the essays, considering it blasphemous; in response, Thoreau refused to speak to him for the rest of his life.
		Thus, Thoreau was not well-appreciated during the nineteenth-century and was often seen as a lesser imitator of Emerson.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_henry_thoreau.html (1422 words)

	Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After graduation, Thoreau worked for a time in his father’s pencil shop and taught at a grammar school, but in 1841 he was invited to live in the Emerson household, where he remained intermittently until 1843.
		Thoreau’s advocacy of civil disobedience as a means for the individual to protest those actions of his government that he considers unjust has had a wide-ranging impact—on the British Labour movement, the passive resistance independence movement led by Gandhi in India, and the nonviolent civil-rights movement led by Martin Luther King in the United States.
		Thoreau is also significant as a naturalist who emphasized the dynamic ecology of the natural world.
	www.bartleby.com /65/th/Thoreau.html (478 words)

	Henry David Thoreau
		John Thoreau, his father, who married the daughter of a New England clergyman, was the son of a John Thoreau of the isle of Jersey, who, in Boston, married a Scottish lady of the name of Burns.
		The stock of the Thoreaus was a robust one; and in Concord the family, though never wealthy nor officially influential, was ever held in peculiar respect.
		As a boy, Henry drove his mother's cow to the pastures, and thus early became enamoured of certain aspects of nature and of certain delights of solitude.
	www.nndb.com /people/468/000022402 (930 words)

	The Thoreau Society: About Henry David Thoreau
		Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born and lived nearly all his life in Concord, Massachusetts, a small town about twenty miles west of Boston.
		Thoreau family pencils, produced behind the family house on Main Street, were generally recognized as America's best pencils, largely because of Henry's research into German pencil-making techniques.
		Thoreau was an ardent and outspoken abolitionist, serving as a conductor on the underground railroad to help escaped slaves make their way to Canada.
	www.thoreausociety.org /_news_abouthdt.htm (1621 words)

	Henry Thoreau
		Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, which was center of his life, although he spent several years in his childhood in the neighboring towns and elsewhere in his adulthood.
		Thoreau studied at Concord Academy (1828-33), and at Harvard University, graduating in 1837.
		Thoreau taught there in 1838-41 until his John Thoreau became fatally ill. From 1848 he was a regular lecturer at Concord Lyceym.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /thoreau.htm (1021 words)

	Analysis and Notes on Walden -- Henry Thoreau's Text with Adjacent Thoreauvian Commentary
		Thoreau does not hestitate to use metaphors, allusions, understatement, hyperbole, personification, irony, satire, metonymy, synecdoche, and oxymorons, and he can shift from a scientific to a transcendental point of view in mid-sentence.
		Thoreau developed his own sense of economics, an understanding that differs greatly from that of Karl Marx (communism) or that of Adam Smith (capitalism), an understanding that can free an individual from a life of toil and worry.
		Brute Neighbors Thoreau provides a short spoof of his and Channing's behavior, and then describes some animals living around the pond, the most notable being the ants, which are fighting a war.
	www.kenkifer.com /Thoreau (2860 words)

	PAL: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
		Thoreau believed that the punishment of spending time in jail was not nearly as undesirable as the shame of succumbing to the governmental policies with which he disagreed so wholeheartedly.
		Thoreau saw this simple life not as an end in itself, but as a means to living more fully the life he really wanted, a life of writing and observing nature.
		Thoreau stayed there for a year, then went back to living with his parents, where he would remain for the rest of his life.
	web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/thoreau.html (4908 words)

	Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
		Thoreau's political allegiance was first to the Moral Law, and second to the Constitution, which condoned fl slavery.
		Thoreau's angle of vision is patently that of American Romanticism, deeply influenced by the insights of Kant and Coleridge and Carlyle.
		Thoreau presents experience through concrete images; he "thinks in images," as Francis Matthiessen once observed, and employs many of the resources of poetry to give strength and compressed energy to his prose.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/thoreau.html (919 words)

	The Blog of Henry David Thoreau
		The Blog of Henry David Thoreau and its volume compilation is copyright 2004-2007 Greg Perry (please visit my blog, grapez, for 21st century rambles).
		The text is from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed.
		"Henry Thoreau's journals were about as close to blogging as anything could have been in his time.
	blogthoreau.blogspot.com (1779 words)

	Henry David Thoreau
		Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them.
		Thoreau died of tuberculosis in 1862, at the age of 44.
		Perhaps he would have appreciated that, for he seems to have wanted most to use words to force his readers to rethink their own lives creatively, different though they may be, even as he spent his life rethinking his, always asking questions, always looking to nature for greater intensity and meaning for his life.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau (822 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wild Fruits: Books: Henry Thoreau,Bradley Dean (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thoreau's Walden (1854) is regarded both as a masterpiece of American prose and as a forerunner of modern environmentalism.
		Henry's loving, beautiful depictions of these various gifts of nature were with me as I worked this summer at a garden center, realizing that Henry's "shad bush" and our "serviceberry" were one and the same.
		Thoreau is somewhat given to making political and philosophical comments, and he refers to the troubles in the bloody Kansas of the 1850s and other troubles associated with slavery.
	www.amazon.ca /Wild-Fruits-Henry-Thoreau/dp/0393321150 (2175 words)

	Henry David Thoreau
		Thoreau's retreat to Walden was not the misanthropic withdrawal that is too often pictured; it was motivated by the urgent need to "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life," just as he writes in Walden.
		Thoreau dedicated his life to the exploration of nature - not as a backdrop to human activity but as a living, integrated system of which you and I are simply a part.
		Thoreau is your gateway to the "American Renaissance," the Transcendentalists, environmental science, the turbulent decades leading up to the Civil War...
	www.calliope.org /thoreau/thoreau.html (897 words)

	The My Hero Project - Henry David Thoreau
		When Thoreau felt that the government was making mistakes, and he did not want to support them, he was put in jail for not paying his taxes.
		Thoreau is my hero because he stood up for what he believed in, even though it was against an impossible foe.
		The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau This site is devoted to the life, writings and philosophy of Henry Thoreau.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=hd_thoreau (847 words)

	Thoreau's Cabin at Walden Pond (Site not responding. Last check: )
		(Henry David Thoreau) is a singular character -- a young man with much of wild original nature still remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own.
		Thoreau began planning for his 10' by 15' house in March.
		In 1846, Thoreau stayed in jail overnight for refusing to pay his poll tax as a protest against his state's role in upholding slavery.
	george.loper.org /interests/housing/thero/thoreau.html (497 words)

	Serene Outlaw: Henry David Thoreau in His Second Century
		Tolstoy, who influenced Gandhi, was deeply taken by Thoreau and yet noticed the general indifference of mercantile Americans to the idea of civil rights in the Nineteenth Century.
		By contrast, Thoreau could be a stern moralizer: “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root,” he wrote.
		Thoreau died in 1862, at the peak of the Civil War, his body no match for his mind.
	www.strike-the-root.com /51/herman/herman6.html (1567 words)

	IHAS: Poet
		By the shores of Walden Pond where Thoreau lived from the land, he meditated, wrote poetry, and developed a philosophy of pacifism and a reverence for all living things that profoundly influenced 19th and 20th century thought.
		Thoreau was graduated from Harvard in 1837 and returned to his hometown in search of an occupation.
		Thoreau spent the subsequent year as a handyman, friend and protector to Lidian Emerson while her husband traveled abroad.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/poet/thoreau.html (1252 words)

	Amazon.com: Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden; Or, Life in the Woods / The ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thoreau portrays a land of immense natural beauty, and his keen observations focus on subjects as diverse as native plants and animals to his musings on the peculiar people he meets.
		Thoreau's revelations on conservation show us he was a century ahead of his time, aware of a landscape and nation which was already irreversibly changing.
		Thoreau's final book, "Cape Cod" describes three visits in 1849, 1850, and 1853 (A fourth, later visit to the Cape is not included in the book.) This is Thoreau's only book which features the ocean and the seashore.
	www.amazon.com /Henry-David-Thoreau-Concord-Merrimack/dp/0940450275 (2654 words)

	Amazon.com: Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind: Books: Robert D. Richardson Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thoreau would have appreciated the fact that here, "mind" is not limited to abstractions but includes the web of personal relations and political contexts, the physical textures of seasonal life.
		Further, Richardson, like Thoreau, writes on the level of most significant detail; his account of Thoreau's development from his return to Concord from Harvard in 1837 to his death in 1862 is neither diffusively tedious nor glibly generalizing.
		Thoreau, the humanness, the naturalist, the friend and son; the poet of the unraveling, entangled soul beating within the humdrum of everyday and ordinary life, leaps from every page.
	www.amazon.com /Henry-Thoreau-Robert-Richardson-Jr/dp/0520063465 (2347 words)

	Henry David Thoreau
		See also the works available at the Henry David Thoreau Society site and especially the bibliography at the Transcendentalism site.
		Henry David Thoreau and the Critics: A Checklist of Criticism, 1900-1978.
		Henry David Thoreau and John Muir among the Indians.
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/thorbib.htm (775 words)

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		Thoreau believed that the individual was a higher and independent power and the state obtained its legitimate power and authority from the individual.
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	Free Downloadable Card Model of Thoreau's Cabin at Walden Pond
		Henry David Thoreau lived at Walden Pond from July 1845 to September 1847.
		His experience at Walden provided the material for the book Walden, which is credited with helping to inspire awareness and respect for the natural environment.
		Thoreau was a dissenter and a dropout, perhaps the most famous who ever lived.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /buildings/new-england/thoreau/cabin.htm (495 words)

	Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Emersons essays are pure poetry; Thoreaus "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" became a blueprint on how to live and why to write; and Whitmans life and "Leaves Of Grass" taught me about myself.
		Thoreau, the humanness, the naturalist, the friend and son; the poet of the unraveling, entangled soul beating within the humdrum of everyday and ordinary life, leaps from every page.
		The theme of Thoreaus life was an opportunity to express his own convictions and struggles.lt;pgt;It was while reading an anthology of Thoreaus work that I first understood why some poets and writers must write.
	www.romancereading.com /Henry_Thoreau__A_Life_of_the_Mind_0520063465.html (469 words)

	Henry David Thoreau: (Anti?) Coffee Achiever (INeedCoffee.com)
		Thoreau leaves us hanging, and we are never enlightened as to whether he took Therien up on his kind offer.
		Thoreau purchased the shanty of an Irish railroad laborer named James Collins, and used the boards to construct his Walden home.
		Thoreau’s aversion to coffee seems more economically principled than a matter of taste; we cannot tell whether he joined Therien in his daily coffee drinking routines, but Thoreau has evident concern about the extremes to which his poorer neighbors will undergo to sustain their coffee drinking habits.
	www.ineedcoffee.com /00/06/thoreau (879 words)

	Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians - by Richard F. Fleck (1985) - John Muir Exhibit (John Muir Education ...
		Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians - by Richard F. Fleck (1985) - John Muir Exhibit (John Muir Education Project, Sierra Club California)
		Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians
		Previously unpublished selections from Thoreau's "Indian Notebooks" and from Muir's notes on Indians of the western United States bring alive their fascinations.
	www.sierraclub.org /John_Muir_exhibit/press_releases/henry_thoreau_and_john_muir_among_the_indians.html (247 words)

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