Teintes d'automne & La succession des arbres en forêt

Henry David Thoreau built a log cabin in the Concord Forest in Massachusetts in 1845. Thoreau lived there for two years to try out an alternative to the hectic and economically successful everyday life. The reason: He wanted to consciously feel life in harmony with nature again. The minimalist lifestyle should create space and time for the essentials.

Thoreau kept a diary about his feelings and experiences during his time in the forest. This book arose from his notes. It deals with his everyday problems, with economic and philosophical considerations, with the feeling of loneliness, with the animals of the forest, with the seasons and with the reading of classical works.

Walden - or Life in the Woods

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, -who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretence of going à la Sainte Terre" to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer, " a Saunterer, -a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre, without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.

Excursions

At Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau reflected on simpler living in the natural world. By removing himself from the distractions of materialism, Thoreau hoped to not only improve his spiritual life but also gain a better understanding of society through solitary introspection.In Walden, Thoreau condenses his two-year, two-month, two-day stay into a single year, using the four seasons to symbolize human development—a cycle of life shared by both nature and man. A celebration of personal renewal through self-reliance, independence, and simplicity, composed for all of us living in “quiet desperation,” Walden is eternal.

Walden

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 "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. "- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Fortes de leur travail de longue haleine sur l'ouvre de Henry D. Thoreau - la publication inédite de l'intégrale des essais en 2007, suivie de la traduction par Brice Matthieussent de Walden en 2010 et d'une anthologie du Journal en 2014 - les éditions Le mot et le reste mettent à portée de tous les lecteurs les écrits de cet auteur incontournable. Par un travail de réhabilitation de ses textes d'abord, par la déclinaison de chacun de ses essais en format de poche et numérique ensuite. À l'image du recueil Essais chaque volume sera rehaussé d'un appareillage critique assuré par le spécialiste de Henry Thoreau : Michel Granger. Arpenteur infatigable de la nature, Thoreau a collecté sa vie durant des observations sur les bois et les forêts et en a extrait un véritable tableau vivant, Teintes d'automne.

Américain dissident, Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) est un réfractaire qui se plaît à résister, à suivre son chemin absolu en dépit de tout. Par ses écrits, il met la force tonifiante de sa résistance au service de tous ceux qui veulent garder l'esprit en éveil et maintenir une position critique peut-être plus nécessaire que jamais à notre époque de contrôle soft de l'opinion par les divers moyens d'information ou les « produits culturels ».

Teintes d'automne

En 1845, l'écrivain et philosophe Henry David Thoreau, se retire seul pour deux ans et 2 mois, en pleine nature dans une cabane de sa confection. De cette expérience il concevra un récit introspectif au fil des saisons qui deviendra un grand classique de la littérature américaine. Je gagnai les bois parce que je voulais vivre suivant mûre réflexion, n'affronter que les actes essentiels de la vie, et voir si je ne pourrais apprendre ce qu'elle avait à enseigner, non pas, quand je viendrais à mourir, découvrir que je n'avais pas vécu. Henry David Thoreau

Walden ou la vie dans les bois

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil-to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks-who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre, " to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer, " a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean.

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