Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (12.7., 1817 – 6.5., 1862; rođen kao David Henry Thoreau^[1]) bio je američki pisac, prirodoslovac, transcedentalist, borac protiv poreza, kritičar razvoja i filozof najpoznatiji po knjizi Walden, meditacijama na temu jednostavnog života u prirodnom okružju, te eseju, Građanski neposluh, pozivu za otpor građanskoj vlasti kao izraz protivljenju nepravednoj državi.

Henri Dejvid Toro (1856)

Thoreauve knjige, članci, eseji, dnevnici i pjesme zajedno tvore 20 tomova. Među njegovim najpoznatijim djelima se navode prirodoslovne knjige i filozofija u kojoj je predvidio metode i dostignuća ekologije i ambijentalne historije, dva izvora današnjeg ambijentalizma.

Thoreau je cijelog života bio abolicionist, koji je u svojim predavanjima napadao Zakono o odbjeglim robovima istovremeno hvaleći djela Wendella Phillipsa i braneći abolicionista Johna Browna. Thoreauova folozofija nenasilnog otpora je utjecala na doktrinu i praksu kasnijih velikih ličnosti kao što su Lav Tolstoj, Mohandas K. Gandhi i Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thoreauova djela

1967 U.S. postage stamp honoring Thoreau

• The Service (1840)
• A Walk to Wachusett (1842)
• Paradise (to be) Regained (1843)
• The Landlord (1843)
• Sir Walter Raleigh (1844)
• Herald of Freedom (1844)
• Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)
• Reform and the Reformers (1846-8)
• Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
• Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)
• An Excursion to Canada (1853)
• Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
• Walden (1854)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
• Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)
• The Last Days of John Brown (1860)
• Walking (1861)
• Autumnal Tints (1862)
• Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862)
• Excursions (1863)
• Life Without Principle (1863)
• Night and Moonlight (1863)
• The Highland Light (1864)
• The Maine Woods (1864) Arhivirano 2008-08-28 na Wayback Machine-u
• Cape Cod (1865) Arhivirano 2008-10-23 na Wayback Machine-u
• Letters to Various Persons (1865)
• A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)
• Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
• Summer (1884)
• Winter (1888)
• Autumn (1892)
• Misellanies (1894)
• Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)
• Poems of Nature (1895)
• Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)
• The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)
• Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906) Arhivirano 2008-02-09 na Wayback Machine-u

Dodatni online tekstovi

• The Thoreau Reader Arhivirano 2006-04-05 na Wayback Machine-u. The annotated works of Henry David Thoreau.
• Thoreau's Life & Writings Arhivirano 2010-04-11 na Wayback Machine-u, at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods.
• Djela čiji je autor Henry David Thoreau na Projektu Gutenberg. Text and HTML.
• Works by Henry David Thoreau at Internet Archive. Scanned books.
• Works by Henry David Thoreau at Google Books. Scanned books.
• Thoreau's Journal Drippings; a Monthly Digest of Excerpts from Thoreau's Journal
• Excerpts from Thoreau’s Journals (relating to political philosophy)
• Poems of Thoreau