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Henry David Thoreau: Walden, and Civil Disobedience (unabridged)

Read by Rupert Degas

Rupert Degas’s cool, elegant reading, with just a hint of the geeky weirdo lurking as he lists the ingredients in Latin of Cato’s recipe for bread, achieves the impossible. You can’t turn it... — The Guardian More…
  • Release Date: 28th Jun 2010
  • Catalogue No: NAX27012
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

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Henry David Thoreau: Walden (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men…

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When we consider what, to use the words…

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The greater part of what my neighbors call good…

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The grand necessity, then, for our bodies…

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I do not mean to prescribe rules to strong…

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Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets…

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As this business was to be entered into…

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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes…

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All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque.

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However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house…

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If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance…

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As Chapman sings, 'The false society of men…'

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Most men appear never to have considered…

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We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled…

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Though we are not so degenerate but that we…

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By the middle of April, for I made no haste…

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There is some of the same fitness in a man's building…

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Boards … $8.03+, mostly shanty boards.

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How could youths better learn to live than by at once…

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This spending of the best part of one's life earning money…

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Granted that some public works would not have been constructed…

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Yes, I did eat $8.74, all told; but I should not thus unblushingly…

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In cold weather it was no little amusement to bake…

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Thus I could avoid all trade and barter, so far as my food…

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A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare…

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As I preferred some things to others, and especially valued…

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While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways…

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If you give him money, he will perhaps buy more rags with it.

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Being a microcosm himself, he discovers…

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Complemental Verses: … The Pretensions of Poverty

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The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me…

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I was seated by the shore of a small pond…

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Morning brings back the heroic ages.

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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life…

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For my part, I could easily do without the post-office.

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I have read in a Hindoo book, that 'there was a king's son…'

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Reading: With a little more deliberation in the choice…

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The crowds of men who merely spoke the Greek and Latin tongues…

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The works of the great poets have never yet been read…

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I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this…

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It is time that we had uncommon schools…

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Sounds: But while we are confined to books…

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It was pleasant to see my whole household effects…

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The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond…

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I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling…

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What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise…

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While these things go up other things come down.

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When other birds are still, the screech owls…

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I am not sure that I ever heard the sound of cock-crowing…

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Solitude: This is a delicious evening, when the whole body…

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I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed…

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We are the subjects of an experiment…

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I have a great deal of company in my house…

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Visitors: I think that I love society as much as most…

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For my own part, I was never so effectually deterred…

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He was about twenty-eight years old, and had left Canada…

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I asked him if he ever wished to write his thoughts.

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Yet I never, by any manoeuvring, could get him to take…

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Men of almost every degree of wit called on me…

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The Bean-Field: Meanwhile my beans, the length of whose…

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As I had little aid from horses or cattle, or hired men…

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The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over…

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It was on the whole a rare amusement, which…

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We should really be fed and cheered if when we met a man…

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The Village: After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing…

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It was very pleasant, when I stayed late in town…

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Every man has to learn the points of compass again…

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The Ponds: Sometimes, having had a surfeit of human society…

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The scenery of Walden is on a humble scale…

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The water is so transparent that the bottom can easily be…

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But the pond has risen steadily for two years…

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There have been caught in Walden pickerel…

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A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature.

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A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air.

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I was pleased to hear of the old log canoe…

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I have said that Walden has no visible inlet nor outlet…

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Flint's Pond! Such is the poverty of our nomenclature.

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Since the wood-cutters, and the railroad, and I myself…

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Baker Farm: Sometimes I rambled to pine groves, standing like…

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So the Muse fables. But therein, as I found…

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If he and his family would live simply, they might all go…

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Higher Laws: As I came home through the woods…

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There is a period in the history of the individual…

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I believe that every man who has ever been earnest…

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Who has not sometimes derived an inexpressible satisfaction…

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Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

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Brute Neighbours: Sometimes I had a companion in my fishing…

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Why do precisely these objects which we behold make a world?

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Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at noon…

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There was not one hireling there. I have no doubt…

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In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual…

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It is said that loons have been caught in the New York lakes…

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House-Warming: In October I went a-graping to the river meadows…

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When I came to build my chimney I studied masonry…

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I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts…

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The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest…

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In 1845 Walden froze entirely over for the first time…

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Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

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The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato…

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Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors

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Breed's hut was standing only a dozen years ago…

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The last inhabitant of these woods before me was an Irishman…

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At this season I seldom had a visitor.

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The one who came from farthest to my lodge…

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Winter Animals: When the ponds were firmly frozen…

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In the course of the winter I threw out half a bushel of ears…

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In dark winter mornings, or in short winter afternoons…

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The hunter who told me this could remember one Sam Nutting…

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The Pond: in Winter After a still winter night I awoke…

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When I strolled around the pond in misty weather…

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William Gilpin, who is so admirable in all that relates…

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Given, then, the length and breadth of the cove…

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When the ice-men were at work here in '46–7, the cakes…

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They went to work at once, plowing, barrowing, rolling…

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Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation.

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Spring: The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters…

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It took a short siesta at noon, and boomed once more…

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It was a warm day, and he was surprised to see…

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The whole cut impressed me as if it were a cave…

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When the sun withdraws the sand ceases to flow…

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When the ground was partially bare of snow…

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Such is the contrast between winter and spring.

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Through our own recovered innocence we discern…

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Beside this I got a rare mess of golden and silver…

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Conclusion: To the sick the doctors wisely recommend…

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It is said that Mirabeau took to highway robbery…

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Why level downward to our dullest perception…

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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well…

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I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition…

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Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency…

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Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (Unabridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

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A common and natural result of an undue respect for law…

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This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular…

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Oh for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says…

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Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them…

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I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred…

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To such the State renders comparatively small service…

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I wondered that it should have concluded at length…

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I was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages…

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You do not resist cold and hunger, the winds and the waves…

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There are really no blows to be given by him but defensive ones.

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