The Illustrated Walden
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Factory system, not best mode of supplying clothing, 26.
Fair Haven, huckleberries on hill, 181, 183; 197; 208; 215; 263; 287; 293; Ledges, 294; 315; late ice on pond, 319.
Farm, the Hollowell, 85; a model, 208.
Farmer, John, reflections of, 234.
Farmer, visits from a long-headed, 282.
Farmers, interesting in proportion as they are poor, 207–208.
Fashion, worship of, 24.
Fate, what a man thinks of himself, his, 6.
Father tongue, written language our, 105.
Fenda, wife of “Sippio Brister,” 272.
Field, John, an Irishman, story of, 218.
Fine art, no place for a work of, 36.
Fire, purification by, 70; “my housekeeper,” 267; man and, 268; an alarm of, 275.
Fishes, schools of, in Walden Pond, 202; of thought, 285.
Fishing, with silent man, 184; at night, 185; alone detains citizens at Walden Pond, 226; impossible to T. without loss of self-respect, 227; in winter, 298–300.
Fitchburg (Mass.), going to, 53; Railroad, 120.
Flint’s Pond, 193; or Sandy, in Lincoln, 205–208; 213; covered with snow, like Baffin’s Bay, 286; 315–316.
Food, a necessary of life, 11–12; the fuel of man’s body, 12; general consideration of, 61–68; objections to animal, 227–228; desirability of simple, 228–231.
FORMER INHABITANTS AND WINTER VISITORS, 270–285.
Fox, shooting a, 293.
Foxes outside T.’s house, 288.
Freeman, “Sippio Brister,” 272.
Frogs, troonk of bull-, 131.
Fruits, gathering autumn, 252.
Fuel, a necessary of life, 11–12; of man’s body, food, 12.
Furniture, generally considered, 68–70; moved out of doors, 118.
Gazette, news of political parties, not of nature, printed in the, 16.
Gilpin, William, quoted, 264–265; 302–303.
God, clothes fit to worship, in, 21.
“God’s Drop,” proposed as name for Walden Pond, 205.
Good Genius, advice of T.’s, 219.
Gookin, Daniel, quoted, 28–29.
Goose, stray, cackling like spirit of the fog, 41; honking of, 287; 329.
Goose Pond, 208; musk-rats in, 287.
Gossip, stroll to village to hear, 175–176.
Ground-nut, the, 253–254.
Guns, sound of distant big, 167.
Hare, the, 295.
Harivansa, the, quoted, 88.
Hasty-pudding, friends flee approach of, 260.
Hawk, watching a, 332–333.
Hebe, a worshiper of, 144–145.
Hercules, labors of, trifling compared with those of T.’s neighbors, 3.
Herds, the keepers of men, 57.
Hermit. See Dialogue.
HIGHER LAWS, 223–236.
Hippocrates, on cutting the nails, 8.
Hollowell place, the, 85–86.
Homer, Iliad, 104; never yet printed in English, 107; quoted, 150–151.
Horses to hang clothes on, wooden, 20.
Hospitalality, not hospitality but, 157–158.
Hounds hunting woods in winter, 291–294.
House, every spot possible site for a, 84; the ideal, 258–259.
House-raising at Walden Pond, 42.
HOUSE-WARMING, 252–269.
Houses, superfluities in our, 34.
Housework, a pleasant pastime, 118.
Huckleberries never reach Boston, 183.
Hunters, boys to be made first sportsmen, then, 225.
Hyde, Tom, the tinker, quoted, 345.
Hygeia, no worshiper of, 144–145.
I, the first person, retained in this book, 2.
Ice, looking through the, on Walden Pond, 261–262; whooping of the, 263; cutting through, to get water, 298; cutting on Walden Pond, 309–312; beauty of Walden, 312; booming of the, 317.
Indian houses in Mass. colony, 28.
Ingraham, Cato, slave of Duncan, 271.
Inherited property a misfortune, 3.
Inspector of storms, self appointed, 16.
Iolas, and hydra’s head, 3.
Irish, physical condition of the poor, 34.
“It is no dream of mine,” verse, 204–205.
Jays, arrival of the, 290.
Jesuits and Indian torture, 77.
Jesus Christ, liberalizing influence of, 112.
Johnson, Edward, quoted, 37.
Khoung-tseu, 99.
Kieou-he-yu, 99.
Kirby, William, and Spence, quoted, 228 ; 246.
Kittlybenders, let us not play at, 347.
Laborer, choosing occupation of a day, 73; falling in pond with many clothes on, 78.
Laboring man has no time to be anything but a machine, the, 4.
Laing, Samuel, quoted, 26.
Lake, the earth’s eye, a, 198.
Lake Champlain, Long Wharf to, 124.
“Leach-hole” in Walden Pond, 307.
Leaf, resemblance of sand formation to a, 323–324.
Lexington (Mass.), 292.
Liebig, J. F. von, quoted, 12.
Life, cares and labors of, 4; an experiment, 7; students not to play or study life, but to live, 51; purposes of, 95; one has imagined, living the, 340; live your, however mean, 345; in us, like the water in the river, 349.
“Light-winged Smoke, Icarian Bird,” verse, 267.
Lilac, growing by deserted houses, 278.
Limits of living, 5.
Lincoln (Mass.), 89; 127; owls in woods of, 130; Flint’s Pond in, 205–206; chestnut woods of, 253; 271; burying-ground, 272; 276.
Lining of beauty for houses, 38.
Little Reading, 111.
Loneliness, desirable, 139, 142–143.
Loon, hunting and a game with the, 248–251.
Luxury, fruit of a life of, 13.
Lyceum, 112, 114.
Make-a-Stir, Squire, 6.
Manilla hemp, 124.
Maples, autumn colors of, 254.
Massasoit, visited by Winslow, 149.
Maturing, no need of haste towards, 343.
Mencius, quoted, 232.
Mentors, of little use, 7.
Middlesex Cattle Show, 32.
Milky Way? is not our planet in the, 139.
Minding his business, till ineligible as town officer, T., 17.
Minerva, Momus objects to house of, 32.
Mîr Camar Uddîn Mast, quoted, 104.
Mirabeau, on highway robbery, quoted, 339.
Model farm, a, 208.
“Modern improvements,” an illusion about, 52.
Momus, objection to Minerva’s house by, 32.
Monuments, good sense worth more than, 58.
Morning, work, a man’s, 35; renewal of, 92; work in the early, 164.
Mortgages, abundance of, in Concord, 31.
Mouse in T.’s house, 239–240; the wild, 295.
Muskrats, colony of, 175–176; in Goose Pond, 287.
Nature, adapted to our weakness as to our strength, 9; a liberty in, 135; no melancholy or solitude in the midst of, 137–138; the medicines of, 159; known only as a robber by the farmer, 172; men who become a part of, 224; questions and answers of, 297; our knowledge of the laws of, 305; helping lay the keel of, 319; principle of operations of, 324; man’s need of, 334.
Necessaries of life, 6–7.
Necessity, a seeming fate, commonly called, 3–4.
Negro slavery, 5–6.
Neighborhood, avoiding a bad, ourselves, 32.
Neva marshes at Walden Pond, no, 19.
New clothes, beware of all enterprises requir
ing, 23.
New England, Walden of and for people of, 2; hardships endured that men may die in, 13; wealth causes respect in, 21; mean life lived by inhabitants of, 100; can hire all the wise men of the world to teach her, 115; natural sports of, 224; Rum, 274; Night’s Entertainment, a, 285.
New Hollander, naked when European shivers in clothes, 11–12.
New Netherland, Secretary of Province, quoted, 37.
“News? What’s the,” 97; futility of the, 99.
Night, walking the woods by, 185–187.
Nilometer. See Realometer.
Nine Acre Corner, White Pond in, 190.
“No Admittance,” never printed on T.’s gate, 15.
Novel reading, 109.
Nutting in Lincoln woods, 253.
Nutting, Sam, an old hunter, 294.
Olympus, the outside of the earth everywhere, 88.
Opposition to society, 339.
Ornaments, significance of architectural, 38.
Overseer, yourself the worst, 5.
Ovid, quoted, 4, 330; 332.
Owl, winged brother of the cat, watching a, 280–281.
Owls, wailing of, 129–130, 131; in Walden woods in winter, 287–288.
Pantaloons not to be mended like legs, 20.
Partridge, the, 291; 296.
Pauper, visit from half-witted, 157.
Penance, people of Concord doing, 2.
Penobscot Indians, living in cotton tents, 27–28.
Perfection, artist of Kouroo who strove after, 343.
Pfeiffer, Mme. Ida, quoted, 21.
Philanthropy, generally considered, 75–81.
Philosopher, what he is and is not, 14; visits from a, 282–285.
Philosophers, ancient, poor in outward, rich in inward riches, 13.
Pickerel, Walden, 300–301.
Pine-tree, felling, though more its friend than foe, 42.
Plants, the nobler valued for their fruit in air and light, 14.
Plato, 111; definition of a man, 155.
Pleasant Meadow, adjunct to Baker Farm, 215.
Poet. See Dialogue; visits from a, 282.
Poets, never yet read by mankind, 108.
POND IN WINTER, THE, 297–314.
PONDS, THE, 183–212.
Poor, houses of the, 34.
Post-office, easily dispensed with, 97.
Present moment, meeting of two eternities, past and future, 15.
Public opinion, compared with private, 6.
Pumpkin, sitting alone on a, 35; none so poor that he need sit on a, 68.
Purslane, dinner of, 62.
Quoil, Hugh, an Irishman, 277.
Rabbit, the, 296.
Railroad, car, growing luxuries in, 35; slowness and heedlessness of, 53; men overridden by, 96; listening with praise to sound of, 120–127; Iron, Trojan Horse ruining Walden, 204.
Rain, enjoyment of, 138.
Rainbow, standing in light of, 219.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, quoted, 4.
READING, 103–115.
Reality, finding, 102.
Realometer, not Nilometer, but a, 102.
Rent, annual tax that would buy a village of wigwams, 29.
Reporter, with labor for pains, 16.
Resignation, confirmed desperation, 6.
Robin, the evening, 327.
Room for thoughts, 147.
Runaway slave, 158.
Sadi of Shiraz, Sheik, quoted, 82.
Saint Vitus’ dance, 96.
Sand formations due to thaw, 320–324.
Sand cherry, tasted out of compliment to Nature, 119.
Sardanapalus, at best houses traveler considered a, 35.
Savage, his advantage over civilized man, 34; life, instinct towards, 223–224.
Scarecrow taken for man whose clothes it wears, 20–21.
School, the uncommon, 112, 115.
Seeds of virtues, not beans, 171.
Sensuality, in eating and other appetites, 231–234.
Serenade, like the music of the cow, 128.
Sewing, work you may call endless, 21.
Shanty, purchase of Collins’s, 42.
Shelter, a necessary of life, 11–12; how it became a necessary, 26; generally considered, 26–39.
Shingles of thought, whittling, 285.
Shirts, our liber, or true bark, 23.
Simplicity of life, 95.
Skins, sale of, 294.
Sleepers, railroad, 96.
Snake under water in torpid state, 41.
Snow, the Great, 124; 134; dating from the Great, 268; walking in the, 287.
Society, commonly too cheap, 142.
SOLITUDE, 135–145.
SOUNDS, 116–134.
South, laborers a staple production of the, 34.
Spain, specimen news from, 99.
Sparrow, the first, of spring, 326.
Spectator, the part of man which is, 141.
Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 149.
Sportsmen, making boys, 225.
SPRING, 315–335.
Spring, coming of the, 318; morning, moral effect of a, 331.
Squire Make-a-Stir, 6.
Squirrel, red, watching the, 288–290; in spring, coming of, 325.
Staff, the artist’s, which became the fairest creation of Brahma, 344.
Statistics. See Cost.
Stone, nations’ pride in hammered, 58.
Stove, disadvantages of cooking-, 268–269.
Stratten, now the Alms House Farm, 271; family, homestead of, 272.
Students, poor, Walden addressed to, 2.
Sudbury (Mass.), 91; 319.
Sumach growing by T.’s house, 133–134.
Survey of Walden Pond, 301–309.
Surveyor of forest paths and across lot routes, 16–17.
Sutton (Mass.), 279.
Tching-thang, quoted, 92.
Temperature of pond water in the spring, 315–316.
Tests, our lives tried by a thousand simple, 8.
Thanksgivings, cattle-shows and so-called, 172.
Thaw, sand formations due to, 320–324; Thor and, 325.
“They,” an authority impersonal as the Fates, 24.
Thieving, practiced only where property is unevenly divided, 181.
Thor and thaw, 325.
Thoreau, Henry David, goes to live by Walden Pond, 1; prefers to talk in the first person singular, 2; beginning in the woods, 39; purchase of Collins’s shanty, 42; began to occupy house, 45; planted beans, 54; earnings and spendings, 60–61; making bread, 62–64; declined offer of a mat, 70; imaginary purchase of Hollowell farm, 85; situation of house, 89, 118–119; purpose in going to woods, 94; hoed beans, did not read books, 116; listening to various sounds, 119–134; friendship with Canadian wood-chopper, 150–156; devotion to husbandry, 169; earnings and spendings on bean-field, 169–170; put in jail for not paying taxes, 179–181; fishing in Walden Pond, 184–187; boiling chowder about 1824, 191; earliest days on Walden Pond, 210; first begins to inhabit house in cold weather, 257; finishes house with plastering, 257; surveys Walden Pond, 301–309; leaves Walden, Sept. 6, 1847, 335.
Thoughts, sell your clothes and keep your, 345.
Thseng-tseu, quoted, 231.
Tierra del Fuego, inhabitants unable to stand artificial heat, 11.
Time, but a stream to fish in, 102.
Tintinnabulum from without, the noise of contemporaries, 167.
Tools, men the tools of their, 36.
Trees, visits to particular, 214.
Truth, to be preferred to all things, 347.
Turtle-dove, long ago lost hound, bay horse, and, 15–16.
Varro, Marcus Terentius, quoted
, 172.
Vedas, the, quoted, 93; and Zendavestas, 108; quoted, 230.
Vegetable-made bones, oxen with, 7.
VILLAGE, THE, 175–182.
Village, should play part of a nobleman as patron of art, 114–115; a great news-room, 176; running the gauntlet in the, 176–177.
Vishnu Parana, the, quoted, 285.
VISITORS, 146–160.
Virid Lake as a name for White Pond, 210.
Wachito River, 97.
Walden, road, townsman on, 139–140; vale, giving notice, by smoke, to inhabitants of, 267; snow in roads of, 281; vale, making amends for silence, to, 282.
Walden Pond, house on the shore of, 1; purpose in living by, to transact private business, 18; advantages of, as a place of business, 19; March, 1845, went to woods by, 39; of their own natures, fishing in the, 137; no more lonely than, 143; old settler who dug, 143; bottomless as, 156; scenery of, 187–205; origin of paving of, 194; temperature of water in, 195; animals in, 195–197; purity of, 208; fishing alone detains citizens at, 226; ducks on, 251; first ice on, 261; dates of first freezing over, 263; 279; bare of snow, 287; fox on thin ice of, 292; pickerel of, 300–301; surveying and sounding, 301–309; cutting ice on, 309–312; breaking up of ice in, 315–320; dates of complete opening, 319.
Walden Woods, geese alighting in, 263; Cato Ingraham living in, 271; Zilpha living in, 271–272; Hugh Quoil living in, 277; owls hooting the lingua vernacula of, 287–288.
Waldenses, pickerel, 301.
Wasps, visits from, 254.
Water, colors of, 187–189; transparency of, 189–190.
Wayland (Mass.), 167.
Weeds, destruction of various, 168.
“Welcome, Englishmen!” 160.
Well-Meadow, 293.
West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination, 6.
Weston (Mass.), 294.
“What’s the railroad to me?” verse, 127.
WHERE I LIVED, AND WHAT I LIVED FOR, 84–102.
Whippoorwills, singing of, 128–129.
White Pond, 193; 208–210; plan of, 305.
Wigwam, in Indian gazettes, symbol of a day’s march, 26.
Winslow, Edward, quoted, 149.
WINTER ANIMALS, 286–296.
WINTER VISITORS, FORMER INHABITANTS, AND, 270–285.
Wood, gathering, 264; relative value, in different places, of, 265–266.
Woodchuck, eating a, 60.
Wood-pile, the, 266.
Woods, turning face to the, 18.
Work, exaggerated importance of our, 9.
Wyman, the potter, 276.
Yellow-Pine Lake, why suggested as a name for White Pond, 210.