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Heaven is Under our Feet by Don Henley
Heaven is Under our Feet
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This book is an informative and entertaining collection of personal narratives about environmental issues by people who have committed their time and efforts to aid the fight to preserve Walden Woods. It includes chapters from Ed Begley, Jr., Jimmy Buffett, Jimmy Carter, E.L. Doctorow, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Arun Gandhi, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks, Jim Harrison, Don Henley, Jesse Jackson, Sen. Edward Kennedy, James Michener, Robert Redford, Sting, Kurt Vonnegut and many others. Hardcover Book

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Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the Woods
Meditations of Henry David Thoreau: A Light in the Woods
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Highland, Chris, Editor. Mediations of Henry David Thoreau, a Light in the Woods. Wilderness Press, 146pp. Paperback.

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.

 
A Time to Every Purpose
A Time to Every Purpose
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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.
Autumn; A Spiritual Biography of the Season
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Ed. by Gary Schmidt & Susan M. Felch.Autumn; A Spiritual Biography of the Season Skylight Paths Publishing, 1st Edition, 2004. 299 pp. Hardbound.
A collection of writings from E.B. White, Anne Lamott, PD James, May Sarton, Thoreau and others rejoicing in autumn as a time of preparation and reflection, when the results of hard labor are ripe for harvest.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Dillard, Annie Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998. 288 pp. paperback.

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."
Here and Nowhere Else
Here and Nowhere Else
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Brox, Jane Here and Nowhere Else, Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family. North Point Press, 145 pp. Paperback

 

This is Jayne Brox first of three books about her family farm in Dracut, MA. After years of living away, Brox made the decision to return to the farm of her birth, where her aging father still tended their crops, assisted by her troubled brother and other members of the community. In this striking memoir of her reintroduction to the land and its habits, she captures the cadences of farm life and those who sustain it, at a time when the visbility of both are waning.

Winner of the prestigious L.L.Winship/PEN New England Award Award, Here and Nowhere Else was cited for its "loving, precisely written evocation of a New England place and its people...reminiscent of Thoreau in its exactness and breadth of implication." 

Ms. Brox is a member of the Thoreau Society and currently lives in Maine.
Zoro's Field (Paperback Ed.)
Zoro's Field (Paperback Ed.)
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Crowe, Thomas Rain Zoro's Field, My Life in the Appalachian Woods. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2005. 221 pp. paperback.
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

 

Clearing Land by Jane Brox
Clearing Land
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Brox, Jane Clearing Land, Legacies of the American Farm. North Point Press, 192 pp. Paperback

 

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.
Five Thousand Days Like This One
Five Thousand Days Like This One
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Brox, Jane. Five Thousand Days Like This One; An American Family History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. 182pp. Paperback - Autographed Copies May be Available.

Jayne Brox is a true Thoreauvian. She is also a poet, and this work of prose echos with poetry, as well as allusions to Thoreau. This is the second in her trilogy written about her family' s history, their New England farm and her relationship to both. Amid the turmoil after her father's death, decisions need to be made and the future of the family farm needs to be settled. Brox, usin gher acclaimed "compassion, honesty, and restraint" (The Boston Globe), begins a search for her family's story. The search leads her to the quintessentially American history of New England's Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial age, but more importantly it reconnects her to the land, nature and our place in both.

Scott Russell Sanders Book/DVD Set
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A Private History of Awe by Scott Russell Sanders and a DVD of Sander's 2007 Keynote Address at the Thoreau Society's Annual Gathering in Concord, MA.