The Portable Thoreau (Penguin Classics)
by Henry David Thoreau
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Read in September, 2007
I had never read anything by Thoreau before this book. I had, of course, heard of him, but I never had the desire to read what I perceived would be a long, dull book about the woods. I love nature, but I love being in nature not (or so I thought) reading about it. That said, Thoreau pleasantly surprised me; I actually really enjoyed reading these selections. Walden isn’t merely hundreds of pages describing a flower or stream; Thoreau places a lot of philosophy in his work. He stresses ind...more
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Read in January, 2005
Where I lived and what I lived for........"What is a house but a Sedes?"
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