Henry David Thoreau

Talfuchre said:
One of the more modern books of those who described nature and even some of the spirituality in a tale of survival was the book 'Adrift' by Steven Callahan.

TF
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Cool, I will check it out. Always looking for good reading material I get really tired of modern bestsellers, one more detective book and I think I will puke. :o Chris
 
"Who would believe that I, chronic complainer and impatient man of the ages, would ever look upon a lump of raw fish and a pint of water as wealth?" (68-Day 14)
From: Adrift, Steven Callahan, Houghton Mifflin, 1986, ISBN# 0-395-38206-8

Guess I should have added: one of my favourite quotes.

Doc
 
I must confess I've only heard about him all throughout my school years in my English Lit. classes, (I do recall an excerpt about the "Battle of the Ants" from On Walden Pond. He describes the event very vividly and was very observant about the whole event).

I get the sense though that he got one of those "born again" in the woods epiphanies.
 
One of my favorite Thoreau quotes, from Civil Disobedience:

"For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever."
 
Ack!
Off-topic but Spark just put out a thread saying he accidentally erased all user's subscription-to-threads list.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/announcement.php?f=692&a=150
Just checked, mine is gone, years of compiling (5000+ threads) GONE!
There has got to be a way to get them back?
If not i think my traffic here will decrease significantly, for me email notifications of new posts in subscribed threads is what keeps me coming back.
Now i have 0 subscriptions.
I know accidents happen but.........dang.
 
Talfuchre said:
His 'Walden' cabin was Emerson's Cabin. He had his mommy do his laundry.


TF
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No, Thoreau built the cabin himself. The property was Emerson's, who gavehim the use of it because Thoreau was depressed over the death of his brother. It wasn't an experiment in primitive living as much as an experiment in simplicity.

As said, it was about a mile, a mile and a half out of town. Thoreau wasn't turning his back on society. On the contrary, he often cooked dinner for and entertained friends there. The train line ran quite close to Thoreau's cabin. He would have heard the trains, and probably seen them pass since that side of the pond was logged in his day. There are more trees there now. I taught my kids to swim and ice skate at Walden, it's a beautiful glacial kettle.
 
I used to live in Concord and spent a fair amount of time at Walden too. I rode the train in to Boston for school and you are certainly correct that it passes pretty close to the cabin site.

DancesWithKnives
 
Does anyone have a link to a free download for The Maine Woods? I'm finding it for purchase through several sites, but not free. You would think like his other writings it would be free too.
 
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