Life Without Principle

Thoreau's account of two years living alone in a cabin at Walden Pond, testing how little a person really needs. The book that turned transcendentalism into a way of life.

Henry David Thoreau

The short essay in which Thoreau argues that conscience comes before the law and explains why he went to jail rather than pay a tax. It later inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's essay on the art of walking and the value of wildness, written as a defense of nature against a world in a hurry. One of the most quoted texts of the movement.

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's first book, the story of a boat trip with his brother that becomes a meditation on nature, friendship, poetry and religion. Written in part during his stay at Walden.

Henry David Thoreau