A sampler of 60 thoughtful quotations from America's first great conservationist and preeminent social critic, paired with reflections from other spiritual teachings and traditions.

 

Kammen, Michael. A Time to Every Purpose, The Four Seasons in American Culture. University of North Carolina Press, 1st Edition, 2004. 336 pp. Hardbound.
In this excellent book, Kammen traces the motif of Four Seasons in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Includes numerous references to and by Thoreau.

Michael Kammen delivered the 2005 Dana Brigham Memorial Keynote Address at the Thoreau Society's Annual Gathering in Concord, Mass.

Crowe's Thoreau-esque 4 year residence in a cabin on the edge of Zoro's field gives birth to one of the finest books of this genre to come along in years.

 

Winner of the 2005 Ragan Old North State Award cup for Nonfiction.

Winner of the Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award fro Outsatnding Writing on the Southern Environment.

Honorable Mention, 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Shop at Walden Pond Staff recommended book.

 

"A Walden for today, paced to nature's rhythm's and cycles and filled with a wisdom one gains only through the pursuit of a consciously simple, spiritual, environmentally responsible life." Blue Ridge Outdoors

 

In this, her third book about her family farm in Dracut, MA, Jane looks at the "larger consideration of the meaning of cleared land and its relationship to other iconic locations in American landscape: wilderness, prarie, mountain, city." She continues to write prose that reads as poetry.

Winner of Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Monteray County Herald.

Winner of the New England Book Award for Non-Fiction.

 

Ms. Brox is a member of the Thoreau Society and currently lives in Maine.

 

Stephen Gorman's stunning full-color photographs harmonize with selections from the classic writings of Henry David Thoreau, one of America's most original thinkers and a perennially inspiring nature writer. A century and a half ago Thoreau first entered the Maine woods and found freedom in a wild realm "far from mankind and election day!"Traveling in the footsteps of this now-legendary author, Stephen Gorman brings a fresh eye and a keen sense of humanity's place in nature to the far reaches of untamed New England. Whether it is the stormclouded summit of Mount Katahdin, or Cape Cod--where towering sand dunes and open ocean collide--Thoreau's words resonate across the centuries and come to life again in Gorman's images of New England's bewitching and priceless natural heritage. This beautiful volume stands as testimony to the enduring beauty and power of wild New England.

"Steve Gorman is a true American visionary. His masterful images are beautiful and sometimes disturbing, but they offer tantalizing clues into the nature of our national character and our capricious relationship to the natural world. His work deftly inscribes our beliefs, our dreams, and our American story in an accessible and eye-opening way."

Dan Brown, author of The DaVinci Code

 

 

"In this landmark work...Richard Louv brought together cutting-edge studies that pointed to direct exposure to nature as essential for a child's healthy physical and emotional development. Now this new edition updates the growing body of evidence linking the lack of nature in children's lives and the rise of obesity, attention disorders, and depression. Louv's message has galvanized an international back-to-nature campaign. His book will change the way you think about our future and the future of our children."

 

 

Richard Louv, recipient of the 2008 Audubon Medal, is author of seven books. The chairman of the Children & Nature Network (www.cnaturenet.org), he is also honorary co-chair of the National Forum on Children and Nature. He has written for the San Diego Union-Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and other newspapers and magazines. For more information visit www.lastchildinthewoods.com.

 

 

- - Paul Dayton, Ph.D., winner of the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award

The 25th Anniversary edition of Annie Dillard's classic Pulitzer Prize winning book. Dillard's work has been likened to Thoreau's in style and spirit.

Eudora Welty of The New York Times Book Review says:

"The Book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. A reader's heart must go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled...There is an ambition about her book that I like...It is the ambition to feel."