Thoreau


Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden & Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
Walking
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Cape Cod
The Maine Woods (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant
Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds & Other Late Natural History Writings
The Journal, 1837-1861
Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
Thoreau: A Sublime Life
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneSelf-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism
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Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Most influential books under 100 pages
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David James Duncan
A native is a man or creature or plant indigenous to a limited geographical area - a space boundaried and defined by mountains, rivers, or coastline (not by latitudes, longitudes, or state and county lines), with its own peculiar mixture of weeds, trees, bugs, birds, flowers, streams, hills, rocks, and critters (including people), its own nuances of rain, wind, and seasonal change. Native intelligence develops through an unspoken or soft spoken relationship with these interwoven things: it evolv ...more
David James Duncan, The River Why

Henry David Thoreau
We know but few man, a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

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