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Lisel Jane Ashlock The Swamp Lover
An excerpt from Thoreau’s May 1862 article “Walking”
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Autumnal Tints
"October is the month of painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight"
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Thoreau’s Journal (Part V)
Extracts from the transcendentalist author’s personal writings
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Thoreau’s Journal (Part IV)
Extracts from the transcendentalist author’s personal writings
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Thoreau’s Journal (Part III)
Extracts from the transcendentalist author’s personal writings
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Thoreau’s Journal (Part II)
Extracts from the transcendentalist author’s personal writings
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Thoreau’s Journal (Part I)
Extracts from the transcendentalist author’s personal writings
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Winter Days
Extracts from the journal of Henry David Thoreau
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Days in June
Extracts from the journal of Henry David Thoreau
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May Days
Extracts from the journal of Henry David Thoreau
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April Days
Extracts from the journal of Henry David Thoreau
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The Highland Light
“The inhabitants bear the crash of vessels going to pieces as they sit round their hearths, and they commonly date from some memorable shipwreck.”
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The Wellfleet Oysterman
“He, being an old man, first ate his breakfast, and then walked over to the top of the hill by the shore, and sat down there, having found a comfortable seat, to see the ship wrecked.”
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Night and Moonlight
“I shall be a benefactor, if I conquer some realms from the night, — if I report to the gazettes anything transpiring about us at that season worthy of their attention, if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep, — if I add to the domains of poetry.”
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Life Without Principle
“The poet … must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planning-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.”
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Sharon Mollerus / Flickr Wild Apples
The History of the Apple-Tree
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Lisel Ashlock Walking
Henry David Thoreau, the naturalist, philosopher, and author of such classics as Walden and "Civil Disobedience," contributed a number of writings to The Atlantic in its early years. The month after his death from tuberculosis, in May 1862, the magazine published "Walking," one of his most famous essays, which extolled the virtues of immersing oneself in nature and lamented the inevitable encroachment of private ownership upon the wilderness.
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Chesuncook
