Table of Contents
Preface by Daisaku Ikeda, xi
Foreword by Ronald A. Bosco, xix
Conversations
- Why Thoreau Now?, 1
- First Encounters With Emerson and Thoreau, 15
- Dawn of a Renaissance, 25
- Refusing “All the Accustomed Paths”, 35
- Thoreau As Social Reformer, 47
- Reading and Human Development, 59
- Walden and “Civil Disobedience”, 71
- Beyond the Pulpit, 83
- Emerson Finds His Audience, 91
- Nature, “The American Scholar,” and the“Divinity School Address”, 99
- Representative Men, 107
- The Inner Journey, 115
- Whitman’s Original American Genius, 123
- The Boundless Potential of Life, 131
- Thoreau’s “Highest of the Arts”, 139
- Bonds With Nature, 149
- Nature, Healing, and Health, 157
- “Our Prospects Brighten”, 165
Notes, 175
Index, 187
About the Authors, 203