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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 350, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

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Henry David Thoreau

Titles by Henry David Thoreau:

• Civil Disobedience
• Transcendentalism
• Walden

Salem on History:

• Henry David Thoreau

Encyclopedia:

• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Military History)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)

Salem on Literature:

• Henry David Thoreau (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Henry David Thoreau (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Henry David Thoreau (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Henry David Thoreau (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
• Henry David Thoreau (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
• Henry David Thoreau (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Henry David Thoreau (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Primary Sources:

• John Brown and Henry David Thoreau (Terrorism Reference)

Literary Criticism:

• Thoreau, Henry David (Poetry)
• Walden; or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Henry David Thoreau dies
• Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden; or, Life in the Woods
• Henry David Thoreau establishes residence at a cabin on Walden Pond, outside Concord, Massachusetts
• Henry David Thoreau is born