The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: Thoreau's Journal: 12-Dec-1859

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Blogs to check out this year [2009]
"The Blog of Henry David Thoreau still reads well. The millions of words in Henry’s journals will take years to get through. There are several blogs that reprint Thoreau’s journals, but this seems to be the best. Thoreau is best at watching nature, and when he’s writing about the ice on Walden Pond and the snow in the Maine Woods, one can look out the window and get a idea of what he was talking about way back when the Internet was the local railroad to Concord."

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Short Takes: News From All Over
"In a time when insightful pondering and deep reflection seem passe, along comes a visionary blogger posting the daily musings of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's journal entries will fortify your day, every day of the year, with wisdom that resonates profoundly 150 years later."

The Tattered Coat
Interview with Greg Perry, Editor of The Blog of Henry David Thoreau
"A brilliant utilization of the blog format, this site brings us excerpts from Thoreauâ€™s journals every day of the week. Like a glass of single-malt scotch drunk neat, Thoreauâ€™s stark, reflective prose has a memorable bite that ripens on the tongue."

The Thoreau Reader
Thoreau as a Blogger
"Henry Thoreau's journals were about as close to blogging as anything could have been in his time. Blogger Greg Perry has been selecting portions of Thoreau's journals, and posting them on the day of the year they were written, but from various years."

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"diaries of famous writers including...Henry David Thoreau have been spotted and you can even read...at the gentle pace of one page a day"

the simple print

The text is from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906).

Each blog post is an excerpt from that day's entry in the Journal, and although not necessarily the complete entry, it is an integral and intact section thereof.

All contents may be copied for private and non-profit use with proper attribution to The Blog of Henry David Thoreau.

"It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.... One must submit abjectly to such a guide, and the reward was great." -Emerson