Thoreau: Walden / Civil Disobedience (Unabridged)

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Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   Walden by Henry David Thoreau - 00:05:49
2.   It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men… - 00:05:33
3.   When we consider what, to use the words… - 00:05:09
4.   The greater part of what my neighbors call good… - 00:06:03
5.   The grand necessity, then, for our bodies… - 00:05:14
6.   I do not mean to prescribe rules to strong… - 00:05:44
7.   Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets… - 00:05:06
8.   As this business was to be entered into… - 00:04:56
9.   I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes… - 00:05:20
10.   All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque. - 00:04:58
11.   However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house… - 00:05:01
12.   If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance… - 00:04:51
13.   As Chapman sings, 'The false society of men…' - 00:04:03
14.   Most men appear never to have considered… - 00:03:45
15.   We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled… - 00:05:00

Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   Though we are not so degenerate but that we… - 00:04:47
2.   By the middle of April, for I made no haste… - 00:05:47
3.   There is some of the same fitness in a man's building… - 00:06:02
4.   Boards … $8.03+, mostly shanty boards. - 00:04:15
5.   How could youths better learn to live than by at once… - 00:05:17
6.   This spending of the best part of one's life earning money… - 00:05:14
7.   Granted that some public works would not have been constructed… - 00:05:16
8.   Yes, I did eat $8.74, all told; but I should not thus unblushingly… - 00:04:57
9.   In cold weather it was no little amusement to bake… - 00:04:51
10.   Thus I could avoid all trade and barter, so far as my food… - 00:05:41
11.   A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare… - 00:05:09
12.   As I preferred some things to others, and especially valued… - 00:05:01
13.   While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways… - 00:05:08
14.   If you give him money, he will perhaps buy more rags with it. - 00:04:13
15.   Being a microcosm himself, he discovers… - 00:04:02

Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   Complemental Verses: … The Pretensions of Poverty - 00:05:24
2.   The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me… - 00:05:23
3.   I was seated by the shore of a small pond… - 00:05:28
4.   Morning brings back the heroic ages. - 00:05:44
5.   In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life… - 00:04:40
6.   For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. - 00:04:35
7.   I have read in a Hindoo book, that 'there was a king's son…' - 00:05:59
8.   Reading: With a little more deliberation in the choice… - 00:04:56
9.   The crowds of men who merely spoke the Greek and Latin tongues… - 00:05:25
10.   The works of the great poets have never yet been read… - 00:06:05
11.   I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this… - 00:03:31
12.   It is time that we had uncommon schools… - 00:03:16
13.   Sounds: But while we are confined to books… - 00:04:27
14.   It was pleasant to see my whole household effects… - 00:04:01
15.   The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond… - 00:02:53
16.   I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling… - 00:03:42

Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise… - 00:05:37
2.   While these things go up other things come down. - 00:05:25
3.   When other birds are still, the screech owls… - 00:05:30
4.   I am not sure that I ever heard the sound of cock-crowing… - 00:03:02
5.   Solitude: This is a delicious evening, when the whole body… - 00:05:30
6.   I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed… - 00:05:39
7.   We are the subjects of an experiment… - 00:04:35
8.   I have a great deal of company in my house… - 00:04:53
9.   Visitors: I think that I love society as much as most… - 00:05:05
10.   For my own part, I was never so effectually deterred… - 00:05:00
11.   He was about twenty-eight years old, and had left Canada… - 00:05:49
12.   I asked him if he ever wished to write his thoughts. - 00:03:54
13.   Yet I never, by any manoeuvring, could get him to take… - 00:04:38
14.   Men of almost every degree of wit called on me… - 00:03:57
15.   The Bean-Field: Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose… - 00:04:20
16.   As I had little aid from horses or cattle, or hired men… - 00:05:16

Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over… - 00:05:40
2.   It was on the whole a rare amusement, which… - 00:04:42
3.   We should really be fed and cheered if when we met a man… - 00:04:54
4.   The Village: After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing… - 00:04:46
5.   It was very pleasant, when I stayed late in town… - 00:03:48
6.   Every man has to learn the points of compass again… - 00:03:18
7.   The Ponds: Sometimes, having had a surfeit of human society… - 00:05:01
8.   The scenery of Walden is on a humble scale… - 00:04:34
9.   The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be… - 00:06:06
10.   But the pond has risen steadily for two years… - 00:06:09
11.   There have been caught in Walden pickerel… - 00:04:45
12.   A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. - 00:05:36
13.   A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. - 00:04:42
14.   I was pleased to hear of the old log canoe… - 00:05:38
15.   I have said that Walden has no visible inlet nor outlet… - 00:03:11
16.   Flint's Pond! Such is the poverty of our nomenclature. - 00:03:40

Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   Since the wood-cutters, and the railroad, and I myself… - 00:05:29
2.   Baker Farm: Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like… - 00:05:43
3.   So the Muse fables. But therein, as I found… - 00:04:23
4.   If he and his family would live simply, they might all go… - 00:05:51
5.   Higher Laws: As I came home through the woods… - 00:04:59
6.   There is a period in the history of the individual… - 00:04:51
7.   I believe that every man who has ever been earnest… - 00:06:11
8.   Who has not sometimes derived an inexpressible satisfaction… - 00:04:11
9.   Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open. - 00:05:29
10.   Brute Neighbours: Sometimes I had a companion in my fishing… - 00:04:48
11.   Why do precisely these objects which we behold make a world? - 00:04:49
12.   Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon… - 00:05:41
13.   There was not one hireling there. I have no doubt… - 00:05:49
14.   In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual… - 00:03:33
15.   It is said that loons have been caught in the New York lakes… - 00:03:38

Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   House-Warming: In October I went a-graping to the river meadows… - 00:05:25
2.   When I came to build my chimney I studied masonry… - 00:04:26
3.   I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts… - 00:06:00
4.   The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest… - 00:05:03
5.   In 1845 Walden froze entirely over for the first time… - 00:05:19
6.   Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection. - 00:03:31
7.   The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato… - 00:03:37
8.   Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors - 00:05:52
9.   Breed's hut was standing only a dozen years ago… - 00:05:23
10.   The last inhabitant of these woods before me was an Irishman… - 00:05:44
11.   At this season I seldom had a visitor. - 00:05:53
12.   The one who came from farthest to my lodge… - 00:05:31
13.   Winter Animals: When the ponds were firmly frozen… - 00:05:01
14.   In the course of the winter I threw out half a bushel of ears… - 00:06:05
15.   In dark winter mornings, or in short winter afternoons… - 00:05:16

Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   The hunter who told me this could remember one Sam Nutting… - 00:05:19
2.   The Pond: in Winter After a still winter night I awoke… - 00:04:15
3.   When I strolled around the pond in misty weather… - 00:05:00
4.   William Gilpin, who is so admirable in all that relates… - 00:04:39
5.   Given, then, the length and breadth of the cove… - 00:04:39
6.   When the ice-men were at work here in '46–7, the cakes… - 00:04:59
7.   They went to work at once, plowing, barrowing, rolling… - 00:04:53
8.   Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. - 00:02:50
9.   Spring: The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters… - 00:05:05
10.   It took a short siesta at noon, and boomed once more… - 00:04:18
11.   It was a warm day, and he was surprised to see… - 00:03:36
12.   The whole cut impressed me as if it were a cave… - 00:03:46

Walden (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   When the sun withdraws the sand ceases to flow… - 00:05:09
2.   When the ground was partially bare of snow… - 00:04:56
3.   Such is the contrast between winter and spring. - 00:05:29
4.   Through our own recovered innocence we discern… - 00:05:05
5.   Beside this I got a rare mess of golden and silver… - 00:04:45
6.   Conclusion: To the sick the doctors wisely recommend… - 00:05:30
7.   It is said that Mirabeau took to highway robbery… - 00:05:09
8.   Why level downward to our dullest perception… - 00:05:09
9.   No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well… - 00:03:44
10.   I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition… - 00:04:25
11.   Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency… - 00:05:17

Civil Disobedience (Unabridged) (more info)
Henry David Thoreau,


1.   On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - 00:05:03
2.   A common and natural result of an undue respect for law… - 00:05:32
3.   This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular… - 00:05:36
4.   Oh for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says… - 00:04:41
5.   Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them… - 00:05:11
6.   I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred… - 00:04:06
7.   To such the State renders comparatively small service… - 00:05:39
8.   I wondered that it should have concluded at length… - 00:05:34
9.   I was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages… - 00:05:48
10.   You do not resist cold and hunger, the winds and the waves… - 00:05:29
11.   There are really no blows to be given by him but defensive ones. - 00:05:25

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