Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.
Total: 19 Chapters
EconomyWhen I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor...
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForAt a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
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ReadingWith a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers...
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SoundsBut while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages...
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SolitudeThis is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
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VisitorsI think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time...
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The Bean-FieldMeanwhile my beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed...
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The VillageAfter hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across...
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The PondsSometimes, having had a surfeit of human society and gossip, and worn out all my village friends...
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Baker FarmSometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like temples, or like fleets at sea, full-rigged...
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Higher LawsAs I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a...
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Brute NeighborsSometimes I had a companion in my fishing, who came through the village to my house from the other side of the town...
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House WarmingIn October I went a-graping to the river meadows, and loaded myself with clusters more precious...
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Former Inhabitants and Winter VisitorsI weathered some merry snow storms, and spent some cheerful winter evenings by my fire-side...
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Winter AnimalsWhen the ponds were firmly frozen, they afforded not only new and shorter routes to many points...
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The Pond in WinterAfter a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me...
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SpringThe opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier...
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ConclusionTo the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. Thank Heaven, here is not all the world.
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ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCEI heartily accept the motto,—“That government is best which governs least;”
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Section 1: But men labor under a mistake
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience