Thoreau Readings
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes. All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted, so enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives.
From Walden - Chapter I: Economy at Wikisource
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Thoreau Reader
The works of Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
Site of Thoreau's Cabin
"Earth's Eye" - Online Exhibition of Walden Pond Images
Thoreau Quotations
Walden Pond Photographs
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
"Why Thoreau Matters"
The Walden Express - an abbreviated tour of Thoreau's Walden
Thoreau's Birthday at the Library of Congress
"The Thoreau Problem"
BY REBECCA SOLNIT
Orion, May/June 2007
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg and other stories about Thoreau by D. B. Johnson