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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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