Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Thoreau and Walden still rock!!

Think of numerous Academy teachers who introduced us to Thoreau and Walden.
Okay, so I’m the only guy who liked the book.
It took at least fifty-eight years for the United States to treasure this author and for the book to become a classic.
Eight hundred out of one thousand copies of Walden were still on Thoreau’s bookshelves when he died…in 1862…

Have you guys seen the 1995 Walden, by Henry D. Thoreau: An Annotated Edition Edited by Walter Harding??

It is just about the biggest find since Eckhart Tolle’s New Earth or Tutankhamen. One of the best gifts I ever received.

If you love incredibly good nature writing and thoughtful reflections on mankind, try it.

Did you know Ralph Waldo Emerson had his Transcendental Reading Group in Concord read Emanuel Swedenborg’s True Christian Religion, Heaven and Hell, and Conjugial Love?
Another touching story…..


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