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As for Waldo, he died as the mist rises from the brook, which the sun will soon dart his rays through. Do not the flowers die every autumn? He had not even taken root here. I was not startled to hear that he was dead; it seemed the most natural event that could happen. His fine organization demanded it, and nature gently yielded its request. It would have been strange if he had lived. Neither will nature manifest any sorrow at his death, but soon the note of the lark will be heard down in the meadow, and fresh dandelions will spring from the old stocks where he plucked them last summer. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, March 2, 1842, to Lucy Brown, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 42, Houghton Mifflin (1906). Waldo was the son of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Henry David Thoreau

Titles by Henry David Thoreau:

• Civil Disobedience
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eNotes:

• Henry David Thoreau (The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail)
• Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
• Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts (Transcendentalism)

Salem on History:

• Henry David Thoreau

Encyclopedia:

• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Military History)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)

Salem on Literature:

• The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Henry David Thoreau (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
• Henry David Thoreau (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Henry David Thoreau (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Henry David Thoreau (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Henry David Thoreau (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Henry David Thoreau (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Primary Sources:

• John Brown and Henry David Thoreau (Terrorism Reference)

Literary Criticism:

• Thoreau, Henry David (Poetry Criticism)
• Walden; or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)

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• Henry David Thoreau establishes residence at a cabin on Walden Pond, outside Concord, Massachusetts
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