Heard Thoreau's lecture before the Lyceum on the relation of the individual to the State— an admirable statement of the rights of the individual to self-government, and an attentive audience. His allusions to the Mexican War, to Mr. Hoar's expulsion from Carolina, his own imprisonment in Concord Jail for refusal to pay his tax, Mr. Hoar's payment of mine when taken to prison for a similar refusal, were all pertinent, well considered, and reasoned. I took great pleasure in this deed of Thoreau's.

—Bronson AlcottJournals (1938)

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

—Thoreau

[[Frank Lloyd Wright]], [[Alexander Posey]]  and [[Gustav Stickley]].  Thoreau also influenced naturalists like [[John Burroughs]], [[John Muir]], [[E. O. Wilson]], [[Edwin Way Teale]], [[Joseph Wood Krutch]], [[B. F. Skinner]], [[David Brower]] and [[Loren Eiseley]], whom ''Publisher's Weekly'' called "the modern Thoreau."  [[Anarchism|Anarchist]] and [[feminist]] [[Emma Goldman]] also appreciated Thoreau and referred to him as "the greatest American anarchist." English writer [[Henry Stephens Salt]] wrote a biography of Thoreau in 1890,which popularized Thoreau's

Here, in this courageous New Englander's refusal to pay his taxes and his choice of jail rather than support a war that would spread slavery's territory into Mexico, I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, I was so deeply moved that I reread the work several times.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest. The teachings of Thoreau came alive in our civil rights movement; indeed, they are more alive than ever before. Whether expressed in a sit-in at lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest in Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, these are outgrowths of Thoreau's insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.

Anarchism

...Thoreau's content and ecstasy in living was, we may say, like a plant that he had watered and tended with womanish solicitude; for there is apt to be something unmanly, something almost dastardly, in a life that does not move with dash and freedom, and that fears the bracing contact of the world. In one word, Thoreau was a skulker. He did not wish virtue to go out of him among his fellow-men, but slunk into a corner to hoard it for himself. He left all for the sake of certain virtuous self-indulgences.

People—very wise in their own eyes—who would have every man's life ordered according to a particular pattern, and who are intolerant of every existence the utility of which is not palpable to them, may pooh-pooh Mr. Thoreau and this episode in his history, as unpractical and dreamy.

• Aulus Persius Flaccus (1840)
• The Service (1840)
• A Walk to Wachusett (1842)
• Paradise Regained (1843)
• The Landlord (1843)
• Sir Walter Raleigh (1844)
• Herald of Freedom (1844)
• Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (1845)
• Reform and the Reformers (1846—48)
• Thomas Carlyle and His Works (1847)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
• Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience (1849)
• An Excursion to Canada (1853)
• Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
• Walden (1854)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859)
• Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)
• The Last Days of John Brown (1860)
• Walking (1861)
• Autumnal Tints (1862)
• Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree (1862)
• Excursions (1863)
• Life Without Principle (1863)
• Night and Moonlight (1863)
• The Highland Light (1864)
• The Maine Woods (1864)
• Cape Cod (1865)
• Letters to Various Persons (1865)
• A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866)
• Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
• Summer (1884)
• Winter (1888)
• Autumn (1892)
• Miscellanies (1894)
• Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)
• Poems of Nature (1895)
• Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)
• The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1905)
• Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)
• The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode (Washington Square: New York University Press, 1958)

• Bode, Carl. Best of Thoreau's Journals. Southern Illinois University Press. 1967
• Botkin, Daniel. No Man's Garden
• Dassow, Laura. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and 19th Century Science. University of Wisconsin. 1995. ISBN 0-299-14744-4
• Dean, Bradley P. ed., Letters to a Spiritual Seeker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
• Harding, Walter. The Days of Henry Thoreau. Princeton University Press, 1982
• Hendrix, George. "The Influence of Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience' on Gandhi's Satyagraha." The New England Quarterly. 1956
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• Thoreau, Henry David. Collected Essays and Poems. Elizabeth Hall Witherell, editor, Library of America, 2001) ISBN 978-1-883011-95-6
• _____. I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor, Yale University Press, 2007
• _____. The Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition. Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor, Yale University Press, 2009
• _____. Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition. Jeffrey S. Cramer, editor, Yale University Press, 2004
• _____. A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod. Robert F. Sayre, editor, Library of America, 1985 ISBN 0-940450-27-5
• _____. The Price of Freedom: Excerpts from Thoreau's Journals ISBN 978-1-4348-0552-2

Texts

• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Digital Collection at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
• The Thoreau Reader. The annotated works of Henry David Thoreau.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, at Princeton University Press
• . Text and HTML.
• Works by Henry David Thoreau at Internet Archive. Scanned books.
• Walden from American Studies at the University of Virginia
• Selected Essays from American Studies at the University of Virginia
• Thoreau's Journal Drippings; a Monthly Digest of Excerpts from Thoreau's Journal
• Excerpts from Thoreau's Journals (relating to political philosophy)
• Poems of Thoreau
• Reflections on a Child's Water Wheel, excerpt from Thoreau's 1848 journal, from The Missouri Review

Manuscripts

• Scans of Thoreau's land surveys at the Concord Free Public Library.
• Complete holdings at the Huntington Library.

Other links

• The Thoreau Society
• The Thoreau Edition
• The NYRB Classics publication of The Journal of Henry David Thoreau
• This Date From Henry David Thoreau's Journal
• Who He Was & Why He Matters— by Randall Conrad
• H D Thoreau at hdthoreau.com
• The Birthplace of Thoreau
• The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
• Henry David Thoreau Online The Works and Life of Henry D. Thoreau
• Henry David Thoreau ("The Transcendentalists")
• The American Transcendentalist Web
• Thoreau Project at Calliope
• Thoreau's Journey West
• Concordance to works of Thoreau at Victorian Literary Studies Archive
• John Updike, "A Sage for All Seasons" - edited extract from the introduction to Updike's new edition of Walden
• Henry Thoreau: Transcendental Economist from Vernon L. Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought
• Stephen Ells's Thoreau research page
• Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Thoreau
• Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience" - Reflections against Slavery and War Exhibition including contemporary pictures and a biographical overview (2009)