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The cure at Walden Pond : a guide to recovering our humanity / Thomas Moore.

Van Pelt Library BF637.S4 M6355 2026
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Moore, Thomas, 1940- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Influence.
Thoreau, Henry David.
Self-actualization (Psychology).
Healing.
Philosophy.
Self-realization.
Spiritual life.
Nature--Psychological aspects.
Nature.
Healing--Psychological aspects.
Human ecology--Philosophy.
Human ecology.
philosophy.
Genre:
Self-help publications.
Physical Description:
xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2026.
Summary:
From the author of Care of the Soul comes a reflective guide to healing, renewal, and recovering our humanity through the writings and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Drawing upon Walden and Thoreau's journals, Moore explores themes of mindfulness, spirituality, simplicity, nature, memory, and community, encouraging readers to cultivate a more meaningful and harmonious life.
Contents:
Introduction
Blue angels
Fluttering
Etherealized by a mountain
Inorganic and lumpish
The sound of the rooster
The sacred swamp
A dose of myself
Accidents
Consult your genius
Dipped toast
The civilized apple tree
A broad margin to my life
The sacred art of farming
Walden in Eden
Be cold and hungry
The cold blood of the Gods
Clodhopper that I am
The fern scriptures
The apple tree building
The eyelids of the day
The hoary bloom
The heavens withdraw
I am stone
Lapse of time
Imported woods
The brows of the earth
The music of the world
Dried fungus
Organic earth
Filibustering toward heaven
A respectable distance
Our cousins the cats
Every town needs a park
My own sacrements
My inner eastward mountain
The philosophy of wood
The mouth of a reptile
The poetry of fish
Room for thought
Not spiritual, but natural
A rich and fertile mystery
Soul sculpting
Slight impulses
On tiptoe
A village a university
The Walden Pond Society
What makes me rich
The beasts spoke
Somewhere between me and them
A fine effluence
Acknowledgments
Notes.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242).
ISBN:
9798897101290
OCLC:
1568214567
Publisher Number:
90104832291

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