Henry David Thoreau

Walden; or, Life in the Woods, of kortweg Walden, is een boek van de Amerikaanse schrijver Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau publiceerde dit boek in 1854, na er negen jaar aan te hebben gewerkt. Walden beschrijft een poging die Thoreau deed om een tijdlang eenvoudig te leven in een zelfgebouwd huisje in een bos vlak bij …

Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musings—as well as Civil Disobedience, his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe-"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind …

Resistance to Civil Government is een essay van de Amerikaanse transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau over burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheid dat werd gepubliceerd in 1849. Thoreau stelt hierin dat individuen de plicht hebben hun geweten te volgen, zelfs als dit ingaat tegen de wetten en regels die de overheid hen oplegt.

"In wildness is the preservation of the world," -- A lecture by Thoreau which became one of the seminal works of the early environmental movement.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a book by Henry David Thoreau. It is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, that Thoreau took with his brother John in 1839. John died of tetanus in 1842 and Thoreau wrote the book, in part, as a tribute to …

Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul Theroux Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during …