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Title: Walden by Henry David Thoreau ISBN: 0-7861-0503-8 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $56.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (59 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thoughtful Exploration into Personal Satisfaction
Comment: Walden invites us to re-examine and weigh our priorities in life. It maximizes the value of our present experience, emphasizes the richness of nature, and diminishes the value and rationality of our struggle for material success. The book is filled with quotes and ideas that inspire a renewed energy and fresh approach to life. It awakens a sense of appreciation for simple pleasures. It promotes a perspective that reflects a more innocent set of values -- that challenge the world's judgement of a man by the money he earns, the car he drives and the possessions he amasses.
In an era where excess spells success, it is calming and thought provoking to read about the Thorough's two years in the woods. It strikes a chord of things that we have known all along but have perhaps forgotten. The sights, sounds, and experiences of nature and the scenery provides us with a sensory scale to weigh our priorities and pursue new directions in our lives.
Can we attain personal satisfaction and hapiness by simplifying our lives? This book inspires us to try.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why we dwell in nature
Comment: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." I grew up in New England near Walden Pond and first read Thoreau's Walden in college. It has had a profound influence upon my life over the thirty years since then. One of the great tragedies of life in our time is that many people spend their lives working like slaves to accumulate wealth which is spent on things they don't need. And in the course of this pursuit of wealth, vast tracts of time are lost at great expense. Why? Some people may never have the epiphany that the pursuit of material wealth and the search for meaning are entirely separate and wealth doesn't guarantee that you live your life well or nobly or meaningfully. Thoreau knew this. He considered the townspeople of Concord to be slaves to their farms and herds and fields and houses. In the woods Thoreau became totally immersed in the process of living each day: he watched red and black ants fight an epic battle, which he described as having great depths of Homeric valor. He observed the color of the pickerel in Walden and the color of the ice in winter. And listened with disdain to the sound of the Fitchburg railroad as it whistled in the distance. He was a purely self-reliant human being having built his own cabin by hand and planting his own fields. This great American naturalist could look at a stand of trees and tell by observation the forces of nature it had experienced. Thoreau is profoundly wise and if you read Walden earnestly, it will change your life. I know that after I had read it, I was never the same person. Give it a chance to do the same for you. You may become transcendental, if you read it sincerely. And understand the importance of marching to the tune of a different drummer.
Rating: 4
Summary: Reflective, yet limited
Comment: Thoreau was a reflective man. He asked pertinent questions, but just didn't go far enough in his search. As a pagan, he was unaware of the realities of Jesus Christ. In spite of his limited vision, he had some profound observations at times. One of my favorites is:
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or an oak. Should he turn his spring into summer?"
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Title: Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ralph Waldo Emerson ISBN: 0486277909 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau ISBN: 0486275639 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 20 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Paperback Classics) by RALPH WALDO EMERSON, BROOKS ATKINSON, Mary Oliver ISBN: 0679783229 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Common Sense (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Paine ISBN: 0486296024 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Walking by Henry David Thoreau ISBN: 0062511130 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 18 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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