“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”- Henry David Thoreau.
Was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher and one of my all-time favorite writers.[3] A leading transcendentalist,[4] he is best known for his book Walden,
a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience”
(Originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy,
in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history,
two sources of modern-day environmentalism.
His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail.[5]
He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time, he advocated abandoning
waste and illusion in order to discover life’s true essential needs.[5]
Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist, John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.[6]
Thoreau is sometimes referred to as an anarchist.[7][8] In “Civil Disobedience”, Thoreau wrote: “I heartily accept the motto, —’That government is best which governs least;’
and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, —’That government is best which governs
not at all,’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. …
But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government.”[9]
Henry David Thoreau on Walden Pond – Bing video
Walden, or Life in the Woods – Audiobook, by Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. — Thoreau
Many of Thoreau’s works were not published during his lifetime,
including his journals and numerous unfinished manuscripts.
Aulus Persius Flaccus (1840)[151]
The Service (1840)[99]
A Walk to Wachusett (1842)[152]
Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)[153]
The Landlord (1843)[154]
Sir Walter Raleigh (1844)
Herald of Freedom (1844)[155]
Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)[156]
Reform and the Reformers (1846–48)
Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)[157]
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)[158]
Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience,
or On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)[159]
An Excursion to Canada (1853)[160]
Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)[161]
Walden (1854)[162]
A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)[163]
Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)[164]
The Last Days of John Brown (1860)[97]
Walking (1862)[165]
Autumnal Tints (1862)[166]
Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862)[167]
The Fall of the Leaf (1863)[101][168]
Excursions (1863)[169]
Life Without Principle (1863)[170]
Night and Moonlight (1863)[171]
The Highland Light (1864)[172]
The Maine Woods (1864)[173][174]
Fully Annotated Edition. Jeffrey S. Cramer,
ed., Yale University Press, 2009 Cape Cod (1865)[175]
Letters to Various Persons (1865)[176]
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)[177]
Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
Summer (1884)[178]
Winter (1888)[179]
Autumn (1892)[180]
Miscellanies (1894)[181]
Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)[182]
Poems of Nature (1895)[172]
Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)[172]
The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)[183][184]
Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)[185]
The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau
edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode
(Washington Square: New York University Press, 1958)[186]
I Was Made Erect and Lone[187]
The Bluebird Carries the Sky on His Back (Stanyan, 1970)[188]
The Dispersion of Seeds published as Faith in a Seed (Island Press, 1993)[189]
The Indian Notebooks (1847–1861) selections by Richard F. Fleck
Wild Fruits (Unfinished at his death, W.W. Norton, 1999)[190][191]
See also:
American philosophy
List of American philosophers
List of peace activists
Thoreau Society
Walden Woods Project
Thoreau’s careful observations and devastating conclusions have rippled into time, becoming stronger as the weaknesses Thoreau noted have become more pronounced … Events that seem to be completely unrelated to his stay at Walden Pond have been influenced by it, including the national park system, the British labor movement, the creation of India, the civil rights movement, the hippie revolution, the environmental movement, and the wilderness movement. Today, Thoreau’s words are quoted with
feeling by liberals, socialists, anarchists, libertarians, and conservatives alike.
— Ken Kifer, Analysis and Notes on Walden: Henry Thoreau’s Text with Adjacent Thoreauvian Commentary[110]
Thoreau’s political writings had little impact during his lifetime, as “his contemporaries did not see him as a theorist or as a radical”, viewing him instead as a naturalist.
They either dismissed or ignored his political essays, including Civil Disobedience.
The only two complete books (as opposed to essays) published in his lifetime, Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849),
both dealt with nature, in which he “loved to wander”.[18]
His obituary was lumped in with others rather than as a separate article in an 1862 yearbook.[111] Nevertheless, Thoreau’s writings went on to influence many public figures. Political leaders and reformers like Mohandas Gandhi, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy
all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau’s work, particularly Civil Disobedience,
as did “right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov [who] devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau”.[112]
I don’t tell people. I don’t know anything personal about my life.
Some are crazy reptilians, Draconian et. who are trying to take over the Universe with darkness? Because it will never work, those who don’t ascend will be eliminated in some shape or form and or stuck in the matrix.
Hey folks, does it feel like we are being conned not only by the Dem Communist Party,
but maybe the White Hats, Military, etc., and the only people suffering are you and me!!! What I know is: Since the turn of the 20th Century you and I have been lied to and cheated out of our rights, stolen from, lived under tyranny, and sooooooo much more, and since 2020 stollen election, have undergone worse conditions than EVER and made excuses that they (our saviors) are working on it for almost 2 years and no end in sight for our suffering to be over, while they live in luxury. Also, immigrants are getting paid and given homes by our rogue U.S. government, America’s/veterans are homeless and given nothing, others have even lost their businesses and homes. I’m not saying any of the above is right on,
but I think something doesn’t smell right to me.
Why should “we the people” always have to suck
the “hind tit” of the reparation? Just saying – – – – – –
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Amen. It’s Time to Start Celebrating Our Freedom’s from Our Founding Fathers Words that
is Our Constitution. I woke up in 2008 when Obama (0ne Big Ass Mistake America)
came into office this country would go downhill.
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Please click and read the following PDF.
MAN OF GOD — Declaration of the People of the United States for Global Peace and Prosperity — FINAL
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Putin Declares the ‘End of the Unipolar World’ in Combative Speech.
(CNN) Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared the end of “the era of the
unipolar world” in a combative speech that lambasted Western countries at the
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday.
“When they won the Cold War, the US declared themselves God’s own representatives
on earth, people who have no responsibilities — only interests. They have declared those interests sacred. Now it’s one-way traffic, which makes the world unstable,” Putin told
the audience. The much-hyped speech was delayed by more than 90 minutes because of
a “massive” cyberattack.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists in an impromptu conference call that the speech was postponed due to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the conference’s systems. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. Ukrainian IT Army, a hacker collective, named the St. Petersburg Forum as a target earlier this week on its Telegram channel.
Restoration of the empire is the endgame for Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s address at the annual conference, one of his more substantial speeches
since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine almost four months ago, was seen as an
opportunity for the world to get some insight into his thinking.
Once the Russian president took the stage in the western Russian city, he wasted
no time on pleasantries and went straight into attacks on the United States and its allies.
Russian state television has again pushed the idea that the war in Ukraine could escalate, with one guest warning that the world should be prepared for a “colossal” conflict involving NATO. Programs on the channel Russia-1 have repeatedly promoted the prospect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine spreading beyond the country’s borders.
On Wednesday, the host of Evening with Vladimir Solovyev revisited the theme,
starting his show with a monologue in which he said he had a “feeling that we
don’t fully understand the gravity of this moment.”
Solovyev questioned why a war, which while “intensive” is in “no way an extraordinary conflict” in global terms, “was causing “such a crazy reaction in the West?”
“Now they’re contemplating getting directly involved,” Solovyev said, referring to the West. With western aid to Ukraine a pet peeve for the show’s guests over the last few weeks, Solovyev said that the Baltic states, Poland, and the United Kingdom comprised an “entirely new alliance” that will get involved in the war, “and the rest of NATO will follow.”
One of the show’s panelists spoke about “NATO’s involvement in a nuclear arms race” which could lead to a “potential nuclear conflict.” Andrey Gurulyov, the State Duma deputy and former deputy commander of Russia’s southern military district, then weighed in, criticizing former NATO commander Wesley Clark this week for saying that the war in Ukraine “cannot be stopped without NATO intervention.”
“It’s better not to react or respond to his statements.
A dog barks and the wind carries the noise,” Gurulyov said as he boasted that
Russia could use up to “100 missiles per day” in Ukraine by the end of the year.
When asked by Solovyov whether Russia was holding back on tapping its military resources because President Vladimir Putin was keeping them free for a potential
fight with NATO, Gurulyov said “we’re obligated to consider such a possibility.”
“We have to consider every option up to a big, colossal war and be ready for it.”
When Solovyov asked if Russia was ready for such a scenario, Gurulyov replied,
“We are ready.” The video was tweeted by journalist and Russia-watcher Julia Davis,
who wrote: “current mood in Russia: they are not interested in peace or negotiations…
State Duma member, Major General Andrei Gurulyov says that Russia is ready for a big, colossal war.”
Amid concerns about the war in Ukraine escalating and how NATO can help Ukraine, Moscow has repeatedly said that it would not use nuclear weapons. However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov evaded the question about nuclear arms on Thursday, telling RIA Novosti, “I believe that the media should be professional enough not to ask such questions.”
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Workers all over the world have hit a new record for stress on the job —
and that’s not even the worst of it. To what extent, if at all, are you concerned about the potential of WW3, a full-scale military conflict between Russia and the NATO alliance in the coming months?
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