Henry David Thoreau: 245 books

Quand j’écrivis les pages suivantes, ou plutôt en écrivis le principal, je vivais seul, dans les bois, à un mille de tout voisinage,  en une maison que j’avais bâtie moi-même, au bord de l’Étang de Walden, à Concord, Massachusetts, et...

Contents Natural History of Massachusetts A Walk to Wachusett The Landlord A Winter Walk The Succession of Forest Trees Walking Autumnal Tints Wild Apples Night and Moonlight

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. [1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Goverment

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...

This compilation includes the following essays by the famous author: The Service Paradise (to be) Regained Herald of Freedom Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum Thomas Carlyle and His Works On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Slavery in Massachusetts A Plea for Captain John Brown The Last Days of John Brown Life Without Principle

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.

La désobéissance civile est un ouvrage majeur de la philosophie révolutionnaire et contestatrice. Un petit livre qui inspira beaucoup d'homme dont GANDHI et Luther King. Suivi d'un court texte de Voltaire sur "la liberté de penser". Un dialogue philosophique entre deux...

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there...

Walking

The country was new to me beyond Fitchburg. In Ashburnham and afterward, as we were whirled rapidly along, I noticed the woodbine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), its leaves now changed, for the most part on dead trees, draping them like a red scarf. It was a little exciting, suggesting bloodshed, or at least...

"Alles Gute ist wild und frei!" Thoreaus berühmter Essay gilt in seiner zivilisationskritischen Haltung als eine der wichtigsten Gründungsurkunden auch und besonders für den Naturschutz: Eingängig schildert er seine Schwierigkeiten mit der Verstädterung bzw. der Abstumpfung der Nicht-Landbevölkerung und entwirft mit Witz und zuweilen sogar bissigem Humor ein Gegenbild.