I’ve spent the last 1.5 years on my 54 acres in Northern Maine carving out a life and building my home. I use all my own balsams to build. This slow and physical life has changed me. I have always known that I would end up in the forest but I had no idea just how healing and peaceful this life would be. Thanks for the audio books to help me learn while working.
Ahh to be on your homestead listening to great literature, we are searching very hard for our spread now and I know some peace will come of my life when I get there , happy for you
I relate so strongly to this book. I constantly am philosophizing about things in my head and nobody understands me. But when I read, or listen in this case, to a book like this, I feel sane again. I feel like maybe I'm not insane. There are just so many things in this book that come intuitively to me but seem so hard for others to understand. Thank you Henry David Thoreau. You're the best companion a man could ever have.
Me too! Not insane, just emotional and misunderstood even at 40. I'm extremely socially anxious, almost a hermit. I go to the mountains to dig, and lose myself for a day. Good people are hard to find, may you feel at some peace
@12:34 "Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."so good!
One of my most favorite books 📚 Siddartha by Herman Hesse as well & the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson All good reads to enrich your life in many ways 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻
@@heyitMeMcFlyunfortunately i dont think tou need to throw your phone, instead limit your time on it as it distracts you from your reality, eliminate all social medias, all news outlets and anything game related, even consider limiting the amount of time you talk and text with anyone and everyone, really should only be used for alarms, weather, and looking up information, as well as accessing notes and important emails
The reading is certainly well above average. I only find the Canadian-style pronunciation of 'out' a little distracting. Personally, I don't "hear" Thoreau in this commonly used tone of arrogance and near disgust. And the reader goofs-up some of the biological scientific names; Potamogeton, being one example. But, overall, yes, I agree with you. I have never been able to learn to read beyond taking several seconds for each word. Therefore I have never been able to read a book for myself so I am extremely grateful to readers who provide audio books.
Christina the Astonishing: I went hunting in the comments section Specifically for one describing this reader. Having lived with the book Walden for many years, I was convinced that the one-of-kind Henry David Thoreau could Never have a decent audio reader reading his first-person narrative. I Was Wrong!! This reader does the Impossible! Whether or not Thoreau really sounded like this voice is immaterial. Now we can enjoy an audio Walden without feeling someone is "reading someone else's book."
I would love to have a little cabin in the woods. Spend my money on doing that and just get away from society, not all together but definitely will be great
Thank you. I was 7 years old when this was finished recording, and about 16 when it was uploaded, but here I am listening to some portions for my 10am class tomorrow, following along with the text. I appreciate all who put their efforts into these free audiobooks.
I love this book. I’ve listened to it hundreds of times at night. I can’t tell you what it’s about because I fall asleep within five minutes of starting the recording.
Except he wasn't an anarchist: "But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."
@@daviddawson1718 The roots and long-standing original application of that phrase are entirely about *voluntarily* living in a communal society, and caring for one another's needs.... Not stealing the volunteered labor of others for private gain. A whole channel of these (and there are many!) Is fine (and even good, it helps spread the benefit, and the awareness of librivox) provided the channel does not *monetize* or otherwise capitalize on others' volunteered labor that was meant to be free. There are channels that do that once there are enough views to get AdSense. It is wrong when youtubers do that with librivox and others' work. Btw, Saint is my *surname*
Dick Proenneke is the person who TRULY lived alone in the woods ( of Alaska ) away from civilization, from 1968 to 1998 ( 30-years ). He wrote a complete account of his experience. Book: " One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey " Sadly Richard ( Dick ) Proenneke passed-away at the age of 86 on April 20, 2003 in Hemet, California.
Good 'ol Dick! who after nearly going blind from an accident at work decided eff this s*it and built his own cabin with hand tools in Alaska. ... HE IS THE MAN. I must have watched the waaay too short video(ș) on RUclips 50xs. Just knowing it CAN be done makes me feel there may be a way out for us willing to go the distance after all. ;)
HDT didn't intend to live all alone away from civilization, and didn't. Not sure why people say that (or imply that in your case). Somehow this has become a common misconception.
You timed that quote way too well. Here I am about to be forced back into a classroom during a global pandemic, looking to buy air purifiers and masks.
My professor and dear friend recommended that I hear this book. I intend to do so as I workout in my facility's gym. I will be adding timestamps at chapter beginnings and points of personal (vast) amusement. May God Teach us all great knowledge.
I promise you, you will get so much more healing and enjoyment out of this if you just sit or lay and listen. Working out in a gym while listening to this? Oxymoron.
@@anngeorge796 please tell me that you don’t believe that Reading wonderful literature is a compromise to your belief in God. Please tell me that your Brain is capable of appreciating great literature, and it has nothing to do with not wanting to read the Bible.
#hour 3.56.00 "For a philosopher all news as it's called, is gossip"; (and gossip is the radio of the evil)! A beautiful audiobook, thank you for uploading! 🌻
Am currently reading and loving this book. Haven't gotten to Chapter 14 yet. Will look forward to that one. Just finished chapter 9, The Ponds. Especially lovely as well. Wow, what an amazing book. Thoreau, an amazing person and author.
@@keithmurf426 So glad you'll be taking that journey. Books like Walden, can, and should inspire all of us to seek out our own "Walden Pond", whatever form they may take. Seek out, love, and protect.
Just a tip for all of you trying to grind out an essay on this novel, but don't have much time. LISTEN TO THIS WITH AN ALTERED PLAYBACK SPEED. THE LENGTH OF TIME THE BOOK IS REDUCED TO WILL BE AS FOLLOWS 1.25 = 11:26:00 1.50 = 9:32:00 1.75 = 8:10:00 2.00 = 7:09:00 personally, 1.5 is the best I can follow along at and would not recommend going higher.
@@manuelregalado1426 @Manuel Regalado it depends on what device you're using. On your phone(if you're using one) Try tapping the screen once make the overlay menu appear. Look for 3 vertical dots at the right right of screen. Look for 'Playback speed'
Finally went to Walden pond this week. Saw an otter eating a fish. It’s 1.7 miles to walk around the pond. People were swimming to In December. No dogs are allowed and you have to pay to park. I wonder what Henry would think of this?
He had the theory that time taken for observing, meditating , light duties and simple food prep was much more gratifying when hours pass. Hard labor was the be reserved for only for 1 day in 7.
He was able to pull this off because he lived on Emmerson's property and his mom helped hım with chores and food. Even traditional societies do more work than that, average around 20 hours per week. It is good for us when not in excess. I mean, his life there sounds nice, I would enjoy it, however I don't think I would write a life philosophy on the experience as it doesn't apply to the majority of people. Many of us in the modern world could work less and have fewer things bogging us down, that's for sure. However, living in the forest myself for 9 times as long as he lived at Walden, it does take a lot of work even as a family to stay afloat. Hard labour happens when nature decides. Winter often offers a lot more rest though.
@@rickhattersley2801 It does drag in places. Sometimes TOO slow, yes. Too many pauses. If there's no comma, semicolon or period, why do people stop/slow the sentence??
I’m planning on retiring in the woods somewhere someday, hopefully somewhere where I can dip my feet in a stream everyday, and listen to nightingales sing and think.
Always the way I too pictured my retirement years. Now that they are here I find the woods of the past only exist in my memories, as they have all been uprooted by civilization. People are so destructive of nature. I live mostly in my imagination and in books as I lay bedridden and aging.
Loren Robertson I can identify with your comment. I rejoice to see my children live full in the now because the future is never what one imagined, plan or work towards. As an example, I now know. That I will never be able to read all those books I collected over the years to read when I retired. Times change and times change us. Anyway, enjoy your retirement and best of luck. ☘️🌝🌲
This book changed my life in college. I'm retired in a little house surrounded by Maple trees and a river over the bank. These audio books are so useful, our eyesight fails us in latter years
I tried reading this when I was 13 and maybe got 50 pages in when I gave up. It was just too above my reading level. Evening listening to this now I have to pay constant attention to make sure that I am understanding everything being written. Should I daydream or be momentarily distracted I almost immediately lose track of the books train of the thought.
I am just trying to add a little background to make Henry a real person. Henry's family had a pencil factory and Henry 'worked' there for much of his adult life. Another job which he had to earn a living was as a housekeeper for Emerson and a tutor for Emerson's children. Emerson was 14 years older than Henry but as Henry insists in the first chapter of Walden older people had nothing of value to teach him.
5:25 why should they eat their 60 acres when man is only condemned to eat his peck of dirt? Why should they began digging their graves as soon as they are born?
*I've read and or listened to this Book so many times, I've lost count.* *I've come to the conclusion that HDT was probably a contradictory, miserable, preachy, asshole, to live with* *That said, some of his observations & conclusions are as relevant now as they were when he wrote them*
...although a very ethical person, he wasn't about to allow the unconscious manipulations of the moralist to undermine his agency. The more Henry learned to pay attention, the broader his sensibility...One of energy orientation, guided his connected nature. Ethics can range from a shallow dove cult where nievete is synonymous with innocence as if it were a virtue, or through "yankee inginuity" and skepticism, beyond the conceptual 'self'...and into the Immediacy. He invariably observed the magic in the ordinary. (He'd go over to the Emerson's an borrow from a wide array of Ralph's Eastern books -- arguably the largest in the fledgling States. Note his last words: While on his death bed he was ask, " What's it like? Can you see the otherside?" Henry replied, "One world at a time." [Keep your voice; advance the day at it's own pace. In Peace arrises All This, and the necessity of our free endeavors.]
The line "this is a libravox recording..." have come to mean a lot to me.
Chapter Timestamps
1. Economy: 0:0:27
2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For: 3:18:08
3. Reading: 4:11:21
4. Sounds: 4:47:13
5. Solitude: 5:37:30
6. Visitors: 6:09:31
7. The Bean-Field: 6:42:57
8. The Village: 7:13:13
9. The Ponds: 7:27:27
10. Baker Farm: 8:40:34
11. Higher Laws: 9:02:53
12. Brute Neighbors: 9:39:20
13. House-Warming: 10:16:14
14. Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors: 10:59:21
15. Winter Animals: 11:38:34
16. The Pond in Winter: 12:05:35
17. Spring: 12:43:55
18. Conclusion: 13:39:53
Thank you
No kidding
Thank you
Absolutely love this ❤️ voice is so easy to listen to makes the book even better than the last I just couldn't get into the narrators jive
Kris Heath thank you so much
Kris Heath &
I’ve spent the last 1.5 years on my 54 acres in Northern Maine carving out a life and building my home. I use all my own balsams to build. This slow and physical life has changed me. I have always known that I would end up in the forest but I had no idea just how healing and peaceful this life would be. Thanks for the audio books to help me learn while working.
How wonderful, I'm very envious. Good luck to you😊
Sheesh write a book about it 🙄
Ahh to be on your homestead listening to great literature, we are searching very hard for our spread now and I know some peace will come of my life when I get there , happy for you
I relate so strongly to this book. I constantly am philosophizing about things in my head and nobody understands me. But when I read, or listen in this case, to a book like this, I feel sane again. I feel like maybe I'm not insane. There are just so many things in this book that come intuitively to me but seem so hard for others to understand. Thank you Henry David Thoreau. You're the best companion a man could ever have.
Ever watch Kevin Smith movies? I feel exactly the same way - sane again - when I watch Clerks.
Or Chasing Amy
Ain’t no way
It sounds like you're one of the sane ones in a crazy world. Believe in yourself!
Me too! Not insane, just emotional and misunderstood even at 40. I'm extremely socially anxious, almost a hermit. I go to the mountains to dig, and lose myself for a day. Good people are hard to find, may you feel at some peace
Thank you for your service, Gordon Mckenzie
Just purchased the 150th edition of Walden yesterday at a Goodwill store. Started reading it today and wow. Speechless.
Nice find!
That’s a pretty funny place to find it
Ah, the introverts handbook. One of my favourites. Thanks for the upload folks.
6:31:44
@12:34 "Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."so good!
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This book is full of wisdom. We should all live more simply
One of my most favorite books 📚
Siddartha by Herman Hesse as well
& the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
All good reads to enrich your life in many ways
🙏🏻😇🙏🏻
start by throwing away the device you are using to be here
@@heyitMeMcFlyunfortunately i dont think tou need to throw your phone, instead limit your time on it as it distracts you from your reality, eliminate all social medias, all news outlets and anything game related, even consider limiting the amount of time you talk and text with anyone and everyone, really should only be used for alarms, weather, and looking up information, as well as accessing notes and important emails
Funny how the world seems magical when you slow down and really connect with nature.
@heyitMeMcFlyunfortunately Why? Thoreau wasn't against technology.
This is an *excellent* reading! Usually, I do not care for the pace or intonation of the reader, but this fellow is phenomenal! Thank you!!
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The reading is certainly well above average. I only find the Canadian-style pronunciation of 'out' a little distracting. Personally, I don't "hear" Thoreau in this commonly used tone of arrogance and near disgust. And the reader goofs-up some of the biological scientific names; Potamogeton, being one example.
But, overall, yes, I agree with you.
I have never been able to learn to read beyond taking several seconds for each word. Therefore I have never been able to read a book for myself so I am extremely grateful to readers who provide audio books.
Christina the Astonishing: I went hunting in the comments section Specifically for one describing this reader. Having lived with the book Walden for many years, I was convinced that the one-of-kind Henry David Thoreau could Never have a decent audio reader reading his first-person narrative. I Was Wrong!! This reader does the Impossible! Whether or not Thoreau really sounded like this voice is immaterial. Now we can enjoy an audio Walden without feeling someone is "reading someone else's book."
@@colleencupido5125 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed this reading as well! Now, if only we could get back to simpler times!
Agreed, this dude is a champ, absolutely enhances my enjoyment considerably rather than taking away
Thank you for this beautiful narration. I will return to listen again, so much to dwell on
my absolute favorite book! As a fellow minimalist, I see his work as instrumental to my adult life
But later he expressed regret that maybe if he had stayed a little longer, he would have stayed there forever.
Seriously one of the best readers of librivox! Thank you for bringing this book to life!
You better believe it. I could listen to him all day.
This Gordon McKenzie is the voice of Thoreau in my mind. He’s an absolutely lovely reader
Be careful. The more you dig into wisdom the more society thinks you’re going insane.
Be carful caring what society thinks
That is the point fam
@@nathanielcoulter8204 Society can put you in a very small room.
@Kyle Smith i agree, but i will still listen to this audio book. it is a good book.
I would love to have a little cabin in the woods. Spend my money on doing that and just get away from society, not all together but definitely will be great
"Sun is but a morning star." The most powerful ending in history.
Thank you. I was 7 years old when this was finished recording, and about 16 when it was uploaded, but here I am listening to some portions for my 10am class tomorrow, following along with the text. I appreciate all who put their efforts into these free audiobooks.
for a minimalist he sure did write a lot
Well when you're alone In a cabin, all by yourself, you become so enraptured by the smallest things which is why he wrote so much
He made and knew pencils. Why not take what you know.
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@methyl jepeny you are right
I love this book. I’ve listened to it hundreds of times at night. I can’t tell you what it’s about because I fall asleep within five minutes of starting the recording.
Same here. 🥰
Then it does you little good if any
The Pug abides. I have read this book three times before listening to it now. A timeless reminder of the value of humility and perspective.
I’m here because I brought out my book again today like so many other times to soothe my heart and soul.
All my philosophical thoughts are in this guy's voice now
Same
😂😂😂😂 I’m sorry I just found extremely funny
@captain jack sparrow 🙏🏾 thank you
@captain jack sparrow Im happy to have gained a fan not sure if you’ll anything new anymore tho
@captain jack sparrow thank you so much this made my week
Love this book and the reader does an excellent job reading it. Walden Pond was the topic of my Final Essay in college.
Yes this place is a corner of heaven in Massachusetts and I’ve helped keep it clean swim in it and love it
On My Bucket List.
Henry David Thoreau. One of Americas original gentlemanly anarchists.
Except he wasn't an anarchist: "But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it."
Thank you for this free Blessing!!!!
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This channel us borrowing the free labour of the volunteers of librivox.org
@@melissasaint3283 "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. " You, melissa, are no saint
@@daviddawson1718 The roots and long-standing original application of that phrase are entirely about *voluntarily* living in a communal society, and caring for one another's needs....
Not stealing the volunteered labor of others for private gain.
A whole channel of these (and there are many!) Is fine (and even good, it helps spread the benefit, and the awareness of librivox) provided the channel does not *monetize* or otherwise capitalize on others' volunteered labor that was meant to be free.
There are channels that do that once there are enough views to get AdSense.
It is wrong when youtubers do that with librivox and others' work.
Btw, Saint is my *surname*
@@melissasaint3283 nor am I a saint. I just agree with Henry that you should receive more for your work than money
Every sentence is a phrase of wisdom. His way with words awesome.
Dick Proenneke is the person who TRULY lived alone in the woods ( of Alaska ) away from civilization, from 1968 to 1998 ( 30-years ). He wrote a complete account of his experience. Book: " One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey "
Sadly Richard ( Dick ) Proenneke passed-away at the age of 86 on April 20, 2003 in Hemet, California.
Good 'ol Dick! who after nearly going blind from an accident at work decided eff this s*it and built his own cabin with hand tools in Alaska. ... HE IS THE MAN. I must have watched the waaay too short video(ș) on RUclips 50xs.
Just knowing it CAN be done makes me feel there may be a way out for us willing to go the distance after all.
;)
13:15: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
HDT didn't intend to live all alone away from civilization, and didn't. Not sure why people say that (or imply that in your case). Somehow this has become a common misconception.
@@goosewithagibus Thank you for clearing the air on the matter. Much appreciated indeed.
@@smesui1799 thanks for the snarky comment for a very mild correction of your comment
"They sell water, and soon they'll sell air."
Justin Is Forgiven Already happening
He red ivy Jill i on ini hi chi
You timed that quote way too well. Here I am about to be forced back into a classroom during a global pandemic, looking to buy air purifiers and masks.
O’Hare: 👁👄👁
@@yourepostedinthewrongtotal1327 how the hell do you remember the name of the villian from the animated lorax movie
My professor and dear friend recommended that I hear this book. I intend to do so as I workout in my facility's gym. I will be adding timestamps at chapter beginnings and points of personal (vast) amusement. May God Teach us all great knowledge.
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Jesus loves you
If you want great knowledge from God, read the Bible
I promise you, you will get so much more healing and enjoyment out of this if you just sit or lay and listen. Working out in a gym while listening to this? Oxymoron.
@@anngeorge796 please tell me that you don’t believe that Reading wonderful literature is a compromise to your belief in God. Please tell me that your Brain is capable of appreciating great literature, and it has nothing to do with not wanting to read the Bible.
Seek wisdom first … So he did and expressed it beautifully.
I had a copy of this book many years ago , beautiful , and how lyrically this gentleman reads , Thank you 💥
59:00 "Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new."
~Henry David Thoreau
This book should be required reading.
The society today, esp the middle age and young, NEED to really listen to this and take it in.
Never knew audio 📙 were so cool.. 😎 I begin my 👂 journey today. Thanks for this. Read only quotes by Henry David Thoreau before this.
Wonderful book. Wonderful narrator. Wonderful Thoreau. ♥️
#hour 3.56.00 "For a philosopher all news as it's called, is gossip"; (and gossip is the radio of the evil)!
A beautiful audiobook, thank you for uploading! 🌻
My favorite line from the book, for sure. If only people could see this they would find theier heads empty and their 24 hours back in every day, haha!
Thank you for the audiobook!!
Amazing! A gift for the ages.
Chapter 14 especially the end might be the most beautiful literature ever written by an American author
Agreed. Side note- I live 47 min from Walden and sadly I never been there yet. That’s gonna change soon.
Am currently reading and loving this book. Haven't gotten to Chapter 14 yet. Will look forward to that one. Just finished chapter 9, The Ponds. Especially lovely as well. Wow, what an amazing book. Thoreau, an amazing person and author.
@@keithmurf426 So glad you'll be taking that journey. Books like Walden, can, and should inspire all of us to seek out our own "Walden Pond", whatever form they may take. Seek out, love, and protect.
Just a tip for all of you trying to grind out an essay on this novel, but don't have much time. LISTEN TO THIS WITH AN ALTERED PLAYBACK SPEED. THE LENGTH OF TIME THE BOOK IS REDUCED TO WILL BE AS FOLLOWS
1.25 = 11:26:00
1.50 = 9:32:00
1.75 = 8:10:00
2.00 = 7:09:00
personally, 1.5 is the best I can follow along at and would not recommend going higher.
I would love to increase the speed, but I cannot find the way to do it. Can you help me?
@@manuelregalado1426 @Manuel Regalado it depends on what device you're using. On your phone(if you're using one) Try tapping the screen once make the overlay menu appear. Look for 3 vertical dots at the right right of screen. Look for 'Playback speed'
@@rayuk3939 Thank you very much for your help!
Click on the upper three dots in the right corner and watch it at 1.25 or 1.5 speed…
"Time is money, friend."
Damn who knew the HS book we all avoided reading was a masterpiece
I’m reading this as a hs junior. It’s amazing how much i admire and relate to this man who died two hundred years ago
Fr. I thought the chapters were too long to read, but this audiobook made me see how great the book is
Who new ur mom was a complete masterpiece
It's so boring to read, maybe painful, but so much more bearable to hear
Why do students think teachers are not giving them treasures and tools of life through such classics of literature?
This is a good reading. Thumbs up!
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It’s astounding how much of this is 100% true today.
Minimalism is a great way to live.
Don't waste your money on "stuff". Use it for your needs and experiences.
You can't take it with you when you go
Finally went to Walden pond this week. Saw an otter eating a fish. It’s 1.7 miles to walk around the pond. People were swimming to In December. No dogs are allowed and you have to pay to park. I wonder what Henry would think of this?
So beautiful, thank you very much 🌺🌺🌺
So glad to have this book as young man
He had the theory that time taken for observing, meditating , light duties and simple food prep was much more gratifying when hours pass. Hard labor was the be reserved for only for 1 day in 7.
He was able to pull this off because he lived on Emmerson's property and his mom helped hım with chores and food. Even traditional societies do more work than that, average around 20 hours per week. It is good for us when not in excess.
I mean, his life there sounds nice, I would enjoy it, however I don't think I would write a life philosophy on the experience as it doesn't apply to the majority of people. Many of us in the modern world could work less and have fewer things bogging us down, that's for sure.
However, living in the forest myself for 9 times as long as he lived at Walden, it does take a lot of work even as a family to stay afloat. Hard labour happens when nature decides. Winter often offers a lot more rest though.
and what the other six days? get high? more mating? oh, right, shopping . . .work is salvation.
Great narrator. Perfect pace❤
I listen to this book every night to go to sleep and I have no idea what it is about lol
Omg…this book helps me sleep too! Something about the guy’s voice.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 me too
Thanks for the great idea!
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30:16
end of chapter 1, part 1
1:08:51
end of chapter 1, part 2
2:07:50
end of chapter 1, part 3
Something tells me, like “Moby Dick”, Thoreau is not talking only about the “main topic” of his book.
I agree. I love it!!
Nice reading. Doesnt rush.
Funny but it seems to me to be excruciatingly slow.
Is there any way of accelerating the speed of reading?
@@manuelregalado1426
Click on 3 dots upper right. Menu opens. Choose playback speed. Lots of options.
@@rickhattersley2801
It does drag in places. Sometimes TOO slow, yes.
Too many pauses. If there's no comma, semicolon or period, why do people stop/slow the sentence??
@Sodham G'morris +1 for the italics effort
Champion of the tiny house movement.
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it is a movement indeed 💩
He lived there alone for 2 years, 2 months and 2 days, so... kind of... Then he came back to live with his family.
I’m planning on retiring in the woods somewhere someday, hopefully somewhere where I can dip my feet in a stream everyday, and listen to nightingales sing and think.
Always the way I too pictured my retirement years. Now that they are here I find the woods of the past only exist in my memories, as they have all been uprooted by civilization. People are so destructive of nature. I live mostly in my imagination and in books as I lay bedridden and aging.
Loren Robertson I can identify with your comment. I rejoice to see my children live full in the now because the future is never what one imagined, plan or work towards. As an example, I now know. That I will never be able to read all those books I collected over the years to read when I retired. Times change and times change us. Anyway, enjoy your retirement and best of luck.
☘️🌝🌲
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This book changed my life in college.
I'm retired in a little house surrounded by Maple trees and a river over the bank.
These audio books are so useful, our eyesight fails us in latter years
mom said one more video before bed
Hilarious
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Most underrated comment here.
I tried reading this when I was 13 and maybe got 50 pages in when I gave up. It was just too above my reading level. Evening listening to this now I have to pay constant attention to make sure that I am understanding everything being written. Should I daydream or be momentarily distracted I almost immediately lose track of the books train of the thought.
So truthful experiencing is our greatest teaching thank
2:50 Thoreau mentions, after explaining his use of "I" on this book, that this book is mainly written for the less-wealthy of his students.
Henry lived for a little more than two years at Walden. Died at the age of 44 from Tuberculosis and bronchitis.
What's the agenda behind this comment?
I am just trying to add a little background to make Henry a real person. Henry's family had a pencil factory and Henry 'worked' there for much of his adult life. Another job which he had to earn a living was as a housekeeper for Emerson and a tutor for Emerson's children. Emerson was 14 years older than Henry but as Henry insists in the first chapter of Walden older people had nothing of value to teach him.
Frank Blangeard He fulfilled his purpose in this great work.
Frank Blangeard...thank you
For that tidbit.
Didn't know he passed so young.
@@UCCWgsVjLmr8LURB4JD8RCHw What the f*** is that supposed to mean? It is Henry David Thoreau, not Adolf Hitler.
Thank you so much.
I am English is second
Language.
But
I can understand all.
Because your perfect sound.
Thank you! the narrator is called Gordon Mac Kenzie (he says?), i'm not english, is that how his name is written? He is amazing, thanks from Belgium!
14:50 old deeds for old people
New deeds for new
What old people say you can't do, try and you will find that you can
First time I got a book recommendation from the algorithm ty ytb !
i searched it up
@@_sn0wbl00d good for you, I don't read that much not anymore .. :)
Thank you so much for this free audio book
Hope everyone who reads this always finds happiness
Every sentence is excellent
Thank you for your excellent videos, and stay safe and blessed always.
"By the rushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon...what is man's morning 🌞 work, in this world?!
Yay thank you for uploading! Will listen on drives and downtime. ❤
One is never alone with nature
I want to listen to more of his books .
3:18:08 Chapter 2
Lol
5:25 why should they eat their 60 acres when man is only condemned to eat his peck of dirt?
Why should they began digging their graves as soon as they are born?
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The Better part of Man is Soon plowed under as Manure.
@@jdc1957 hmmmm......🤔😒
Definitely some gems in his muttering's. Unfortunately the majority of us have to work for a meal. Thank you for the download I did enjoy it.
Yep you're a slave and live the life given to you instead of carving out YOUR OWN existence. Sad. Mutterings? I don't think so.
Excellent.
Absolutely love this!! Thank you!!
This is just a personal placeholder for me so I know where to resume so just ignore me :)
1:50:00 / Chapter 1 / Page 25
Superb narrator.
Thoreau would hate how much further consumption has taken us down.
Affirmative.
One of the greatest books...
agreed
Duh
chapter 5 (solitude) starts at 5:37:30
Josephine Goergen.. best one👍
Just what I was looking for.
Wonderful!Wonderful. That's it.
A quite decent narrator, rare for Librivox - thanks so much 🙏🏼🌹
Thank you for sharing with us
*I've read and or listened to this Book so many times, I've lost count.*
*I've come to the conclusion that HDT was probably a contradictory, miserable, preachy, asshole, to live with*
*That said, some of his observations & conclusions are as relevant now as they were when he wrote them*
He was a prophet, a mystic, a natural philosopher, the epitome of wisdom, the American Rumi.
4:08:47 _Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in._
Wonderful narration, big thank you.
For those playing at home: 1 Rod is 16.5 feet or just over 5 meters.
No fooling? 😂
What is a Hot Rod then? vrooom vrroom?
Or 5 meters of something of a high temperature?
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you
I was gonna listen to the first chapter before bed but I didn’t realise it’s 3 hours lol
Great reading.
Thanks a lot.
Love the themes of this literary work. But when i hear the audio reader, it sounds like I'm listening to Agent Smith explain the Matrix to Neo.
You're exactly right 😂
Can't unhear it, thanks -_-
😂😂😂this is too accurate
At 6:30 when he starts talking about his beans ❤
“I love a broad margin in my life.” Thank you
...although a very ethical person, he wasn't about to allow the unconscious manipulations of the moralist to undermine his agency. The more Henry learned to pay attention, the broader his sensibility...One of energy orientation, guided his connected nature. Ethics can range from a shallow dove cult where nievete is synonymous with innocence as if it were a virtue, or through "yankee inginuity" and skepticism, beyond the conceptual 'self'...and into the Immediacy. He invariably observed the magic in the ordinary. (He'd go over to the Emerson's an borrow from a wide array of Ralph's Eastern books -- arguably the largest in the fledgling States. Note his last words: While on his death bed he was ask, " What's it like? Can you see the otherside?" Henry replied, "One world at a time." [Keep your voice; advance the day at it's own pace. In Peace arrises All This, and the necessity of our free endeavors.]
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Hahahahaha.
3:26:00 semi start of the American Literature AGS book. I say semi because its a few seconds before
Good audiobook which i shall revisit over and over again. 🙏❤
One of my favorite books.