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Three complete books and four essays by Thoreau, annotated versions of
Walden and Civil Disobedience, links to other Thoreau and Walden sites, and help for students on the Walden Express.
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This Thoreau site maintains pages for: The Thoreau Society (Literature and Philosophy)
The Walden Woods Project (Land Protection)
The Thoreau Institute (Research and Education)
With Overviews:
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From the Ecology Hall of Fame - "Seeking a
quiet place to write, he followed a friend's suggestion and built a small cabin on the
north shore of Walden Pond .... He started work on his cabin in March of 1845. On the 4th
of July, he moved in. Thus began one of the great and lasting experiments in life and
thought of the whole of human experience."
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Elizabeth Hall Witherell, with Elizabeth
Dubrulle - "Thoreau considered the ownership of material possessions beyond the basic
necessities of life to be an obstacle, rather than an advantage. He saw that most people
measured their worth in terms of what they owned, and stood this common assumption on its
head."
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A factual chart on Thoreau and his ancestors,
using the ahnentafel numbering system.
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Ray Angelo - "During the early 1850s
Thoreau's passion for recording flowering dates and leafing of woody plants dawns. He
described the great lengths he went to at times to ascertain the exact date a particular
flower opened -- 'running to different sides of the town and into neighboring towns, often
between twenty and thirty miles in a day.'"
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University of Toledo Libraries - "Soon
after Thoreau’s death in 1862, friends, admirers, and critics sought to shape and
define the Concordian’s image through books and other publications. By the end of the
nineteenth-century, Thoreau and his works were much more popular and widely-known than
when he was alive."
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A critical edition of Thoreau's writing,
sponsored in part by the NEH, an independent federal agency, and published by Princeton
University Press.
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Without the work of this project, almost half of
the surviving manuscripts of Henry D. Thoreau might never appear in print. Much of his
poetry, letters, Journal entries, early essays, translations, and nature writings would be
condemned to obscurity.
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Wendell P. Glick - "Even the most
recalcitrant young reader should be willing to acknowledge that the question of most
concern to Thoreau is a fundamental one: 'How, since life is short and one's years are
numbered, can one live most abundantly?'"
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Essay by Frank H. W. Edler
This essay addresses the question of language and being
in Willa Cather's novel The Professor's House and how Cather goes
back to a language based on the logos of nature.
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This short page details the influence of Eastern
religious thought and practice on Thoreau and his fellow Transcendentalist, Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
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A comprehensive collection of online images of
Thoreau and the people and places associated with him, created by students at Salisbury
State University.
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Thorough introduction to Thoreau's life, with
links to online versions of his most famous texts.
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This Ecotopia/USA Web site places Thoreau in the
company of Rachel Carson, Alan Chadwick, John Burroughs, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold,
charter inductees into their Hall of Fame for environmental heroes.
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This exhibit includes color photos of Walden
Pond in different seasons; it was created by a staff person at the Concord Consortium.
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Using both scientific and common names, Ray
Angelo has compiled an exhaustive index to botanical references in Thoreau's Journal. The
much-anticipated online version is keyed to the 1906 edition of the Journal and contains
revisions to the printed edition, now out of print. A great resource.
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Designed by Jim Morgan as a showpiece for
Harlequin electricInk, this slick site combines Thoreau's text with sound,
photographs, and video in an easy-to-navigate cyber-stroll through Cape Cod.
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The Portland Newspapers and WGME-TV spent three
weeks paddling and hiking portions of Thoreau's route, guided by the author's words and
ideas. Here, they share with readers, viewers, and Internet users what they observed in
the woods and along the rivers and lakes that Thoreau described as "the wildest
country." Interesting information on Thoreau as a writer and as a philosopher.
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Today in History, from the American Memory Project, profiles Thoreau on his
birthday. This well-designed site is produced by the Library
of Congress and includes the text of the 1863 Ticknor & Fields edition of
Thoreau's Excursions, one of many Thoreau items in the Library's Rare Book Collection.
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A mailing list, managed by Kirk McElhearn,
dedicated to Thoreau. A good place to contact other Thoreau enthusiasts.
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Created and maintained by Walden Font, a
Winchester, Mass., historic font and clipart design firm, these pages contain information
and links related to Walden Pond preservation efforts and to Thoreau more generally.
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Credits: Elizabeth Witherell and Louisa Dennis, University of California, Santa
Barbara Library; Richard Lenat, Thoreau Reader
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